Great debt ceiling quote

Honestly do not see anything original about it that everyone does not already know.

 

Ha. Not everyone, obviously.

 

Simple. He's the hero of the GOP, the same party that is now objecting to the raising of the limit. Obama is merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the GOP's position.

 

It's always shocking when politicians show hypocrisy, especially when their main goal is just to obstruct the other party.

Next you'll tell me that everything they do is just to get re-elected.

 

Not Obama, though. I keep reading in David Plouffe's book how "different" he is when it comes to that. He doesn't actually care if he's elected or not.

It will, I swear to God, be the absolute last book I ever read that was written by a self-serving political insider. What a slog. And not that he isn't talented or a good guy. But, man, is it sugar-coated.

 

Yes, Carter was a horrible president. One of the few to tell us we better get our act together in regards to our energy situation, or else we'd...be about where we are right now. Of course, in the land of big bellies and big jingoism, no one wanted to hear that realism shit so we hired a guy with years of acting experience to lie to us and tell us everything's still fine.

 

In past this is what this routine bill has looked like:

Joint Resolution



Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt. <<NOTE: Feb. 12,
2010 - [H.J. Res. 45]>>

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (b) of section
3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the
dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu
thereof $14,294,000,000,000.

 

Lets not forget the tax hikes and working with Tip O'Neil on certain legislation that needed to be passed. Something that we are not seeing from either side today.

 

Washington worked much better under that system. Now it's like watching the chiefs cook the food. Kinda ruins the appetite.

 

But, on average, each extension was less than 6 months.

Tip didn't give Ronnie more than 6 months.

But that's not good enough for President Obama. He'll veto a six month extension. For purely political reasons, he's demanding an extension that will take it out beyond the 2012 election -- more than 16 months from now.

 

I'm convinced more and more every day that this country is controlled by the 536 best white collared criminals in the country.... The last 8 years have clearly showed it doesn't matter what party is in charge the American people are being screwed