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Man With No Plan Demands Deal By Tuesday In Weekly Radio Whinefest

Written By : William Teach

There’s an old saying: respect the office, if not the man. But, what if the man uses the office to make the presidency as much of a joke as he is himself? Anyhow, Obama has used his perch to complain like a 5 year old who isn’t allowed to have a cookie before doing his homework

Just days ahead of the Aug. 2 debt ceiling deadline and as partisan rankling continued on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama urged Congress to show him a plan that would divert the country from national default by Tuesday.

Huh what? Why not offer one up yourself?

In the weekly address to the ~~nation~~ DNC, the president maintained that House Republicans had wasted too much time passing a bill that doesn’t offer a long-term solution to the debt crisis.

In other words, one that doesn’t get him beyond the 2012 elections.

The House plan, Obama argued, would expose the country to another impasse in a few months. “It would hold our economy captive to Washington politics once again,” he said. “If anything, the past few weeks have demonstrated that’s unacceptable.”

Yeah, damned those politics by people elected to represent the will of their constituents who see spending as a major problem.

“And make no mistake — for those who reflexively opposed tax increase on anyone, a lower credit rating would be a tax increase on everyone,” he warned.

“That would be inexcusable, and entirely self-inflicted by Washington. The power to solve this is in our hands.”

So, yet again, President Snippy Pants uses his perch to insult a group of Americans by saying that their hardcore political belief that tax increases are a Bad Idea is the same as his own knee jerk reaction to whine when he doesn’t get his own way. It’s rather hard to respect the office when Obama has worked hard to make it the same as some tin pot incompetent third world dictators office.

And, if the power is “in our hands”, why doesn’t he offer a plan?

Crossed at Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach.

Cheese Whiz

Your attitude is unpatriotic, hateful, and insulting.

You are the proverbial pot calling the kettle black.

http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

So, nothing but personal attacks, eh?

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Anonymous

I see Cheesy still doesn’t grasp the difference between debate and mockery. Oh well, maybe someday.
Martin Hale

I think it’s been proven enough times and in enough ways that petey has absolutely no ability or desire to live by the same standards he demands of others.

I suspect that’s because he’s here as a conversation starter – if you’re familiar with fine dining terms, he’s the amuse bouche at this site. Nothing substantive or heavy – but a light opening to the proceedings – a little something to stimulate the senses in anticipation for what’s to follow.

The thing about the amuse bouche is that it’s quickly forgotten and overshadowed by the rest of the meal. Just like petey.

JoeBritton

Teach either is lying or doesn’t understand his own party:

The reason that the Republicans deliberately destroyed the balanced budget and created unprecedented government debt was precisely in hopes that at some point they could use the debt as an excuse to destroy social security, medicare, and myriads of educational and health programs. They represent rich people, and the rich don’t want to be having to bear their fair share of the national burden. What better way to get out of having to pay those pesky taxes than making sure the government doesn’t do anything for anyone but the rich.

http://www.juancole.com/

The balanced budget talked about is Clinton’s. On election, Bush immediately gave the surplus to the wealthy in terms of taxcuts, and continued ballooning the National Debt with more deficit spending.

That Obama could talk about altering Social Security and Medicare to appease right wing anti-socialists is astoundingl

JoeBritton

And that most of the people on this blog including Teach are poor, it makes this proTea Party rhetoric ironic. When these people get old and there’s no Social Security or Medicare waiting for them, they will undoubtedly expect charity handouts and ERs to support them.

gfchicago

I guess you have some super duper magical powers that let you see into everyone’s finances on this board.

Why don’t you go and take your wonderful insightful gifts and impress all of your compatriots over at HuffPo or Fire Dog lake or any of the other leftie websites. Since you have such superior intellect I’m sure you don’t want to hang out with the likes of us. /sarc off
Daytrip

Or maybe if the Tea Party had their way the government would stop spending our social security money to the research the psychological effect of penis size or extending out unemployment for 3 years at a higher payrate than the average entry level job for people who already work under the table

gfchicago

Yeah, and that so called surplus came from stealing from SSI. Yet you complain that there will be none later, it’s because of your stupid party that there isn’t going to be any.

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

So why do they say he had a surplus?

As is usually the case in claims such as this, it has to do with Washington doublespeak and political smoke and mirrors.

Understanding what happened requires understanding two concepts of what makes up the national debt. The national debt is made up of public debt and intragovernmental holdings. The public debt is debt held by the public, normally including things such as treasury bills, savings bonds, and other instruments the public can purchase from the government. Intragovernmental holdings, on the other hand, is when the government borrows money from itself–mostly borrowing money from social security.

When it is claimed that Clinton paid down the national debt, that is patently false–as can be seen, the national debt went up every single year. What Clinton did do was pay down the public debt–notice that the claimed surplus is relatively close to the decrease in the public debt for those years. But he paid down the public debt by borrowing far moremoney in the form of intragovernmental holdings (mostly Social Security).
Update 3/31/2009: The following quote from an article at CBS confirms my explanation of the Myth of the Clinton Surplus, and the entire article essentially substantiates what I wrote.”Over the past 25 years, the government has gotten used to the fact that Social Security is providing free money to make the rest of the deficit look smaller,” said Andrew Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Interestingly, this most likely was not even a conscious decision by Clinton. The Social Security Administration is legally required to take all its surpluses and buy U.S. Government securities, and the U.S. Government readily sells those securities–which automatically and immediately becomes intragovernmental holdings. The economy was doing well due to the dot-com bubble and people were earning a lot of money and paying a lot into Social Security. Since Social Security had more money coming in than it had to pay in benefits to retired persons, all that extra money was immediately used to buy U.S. Government securities. The government was still running deficits, but since there was so much money coming from excess Social Security contributions there was no need to borrow more money directly from the public. As such, the public debt went down while intragovernmental holdings continued to skyrocket.

The net effect was that the national debt most definitely did not get paid down because we did not have a surplus. The government just covered its deficit by borrowing money from Social Security rather than the public.

The start of the really big stealing from SSI started under your hero LBJ.

You need to educate yourself Slow Joe.

Anonymous

Damn, woman, you beat me to it! Nicely done.

gfchicago

Thanks Jasmc!

Anonymous

Juan Cole. You’re going to post an opinion piece, decrying Republicans, with no data or information, by a guy who has appeared on Keith Olbermann’s show and Rachel Maddow’s?

And you wonder why you get flagged constantly.
Anonymous

Oh, and there was no Clinton surplus. Quit lying.

http://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

gfchicago

Yeah like your attitude was probably just as unpatriotic, hateful and insulting during President Bush’s two terms.

gfchicago

Good God does this man never shut up!!!

In the ~~weekly~~ quarter hour address to the ~~nation~~DNC, the president maintained that House Republicans had wasted too much time passing a bill that doesn’t offer a long-term solution to the debt crisis.

FIFY William

He and his followers Slow Joe, Cheese Dick and Georgie Porggie et al. are all annoying as hell and lie continuously.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706090622 Barbara O’Brien

The Constitution (remember the Constitution) gives the power to pay debts and borrow money only to Congress (Article I, Section 8, first two clauses). It gives no such power to the President. The Constitution doesn’t say bleep about the President getting involved in the public debt.

So, if we are actually following the Constitution and not making stuff up as we go along, the debt ceiling is CONGRESS’S responsibility.

When senators or representatives whine that the President ought to have a plan, they sound like children wanting daddy to come and do their homework for them.

And, anyway, the executive branch tried for weeks to negotiate something workable with representatives of Congress, putting all kinds of stuff on the table, and Republicans would not negotiate. By now it ought to be obvious that any plan submitted by the Obama Administration will be rejected by Republicans automatically. It doesn’t matter what the plan is. If he’s for it, they’re against it.

And, you know, there is absolutely no reason there has to be a plan. Congress could pass a two sentence bill that raises the debt ceiling enough to cover debts until the end of 2012, which is all the President is insisting on. It was Republicans in Congress who declared they would not raise the debt ceiling without a plan, so it’s up to them to come up with one.

gfchicago

Ummm, I believe it was Harry “The Troll” Reid and “Botox” Nancy Pelosi that started out whining about Obama not providing any input into the debate.

And, you know, there is absolutely no reason there has to be a plan. Congress could pass a two sentence bill that raises the debt ceiling

The Republicans in the House have passed two bills and provided the Ryan plan. It’s the childish democrats that refuse to act.

enough to cover debts until the end of 2012, which is all the President is insisting on..

Obama just wants cover for a year while he continues his aren’t I wonderful reelection campaign. Not that he’s ever stopped campaigning since he was elected to office.

Every time that a debt ceiling raise request is made, it needs to be debated. (Regardless of whether its a Republican or Democrat President) Not give cart an unlimited credit card for a year. The expenditures need to start being prioritized and any future spending needs to be examined closely, we simply can’t continue on the road we are on. We are fed up with all of the out of control spending from both parties.

We have let those political elite get away with murder for far too long and they have bankrupted us. We have to put a stop to it.

So it’s up to Harry “The Troll” Reid and Obama to compromise.
Anonymous

When Obama was safely ensconced as a backbencher in the US Senate, raising the debt ceiling in 2006 (to $8.95 trillion) was “a sign of leadership failure.” Five years later, Obama’s colleagues passed $4.5 trillion in new debt ceiling limits while controlling Congress, and now Obama wants another $2.7 trillion.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/07/30/video-presidential-leadership-fail/

http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

President Obama’s big problem is that he’s a radical ideologue, not a politician, so he cannot back down. Combine that with the fact that he’s spent his whole life being agreed to and given everything for free without criticism, question, or challenge and you have a real problem.

Too bad the uniter and new politics guy who’d reach out and find common ground from the 2008 election year isn’t there in office now. All he does is attack Republicans for daring to disagree with him and refuse to bend or compromise.
gfchicago

Hey Slow Joe & Cheese Dick,

Here is what your beloved Democraps are up to now.

Democrats enforce filibuster against their own debt bill
http://tinyurl.com/3l6kbhn

Just keep blaming the Republicans, when it’s your own party working against you. This time around it will get you nowhere.
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TeaPartyNation

NO-PLAN OBOZO is so irrelevant that his teleprompter readings sound like nothing more than background static.

While America burns, obozo fiddles – and by fiddle I mean: parties in the White House, golfs, goes on taxpayer-funded vacations and attends fund-raisers for his re-election.

gfchicago

Same thing.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Hart/100001365605444 Michelle Hart

2005 - Republicans control House & Senate, Economy in good shape, low unemployment, low gasoline, minor defict problems….

2006 - Republicans control House & Senate, Economy still in really good shape, low unemployment, voters give House & Senate to Democrats…..

Odumbo, Reid, Pelosi say raising debt ceiling is total leadership failure

2007 – Democats control House & Senate, Economy starts to weaken, unemployment is going up fast, deficits really start to increase…..

2008 – Democats control House & Senate, Economy totally crashes, unemployment skyrockets, massive finacial bailouts are used to fix it…..

2009 – Democats control House & Senate, Economy is in really serious trouble, more massive spending just makes it worse…..

2010 – Democats control House & Senate, Economy in absolute ruin, spending is out of control so voters give ONLY the house to Repuclicans…..

2011 – Democats blame Republicans for not solving the problem and call them terroists while saying no to every idea proposed ???

Odumbo, Reid, Pelosi say raising debt ceiling is sign of fantastic leadership
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