Posted on 12/16/2013 10:54:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The White House reiterated Monday that administration officials would not negotiate over the debt ceiling, after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said over the weekend that Republicans would seek concessions in exchange for extending the limit on borrowing.
"The president's position has not changed," said White House press secretary Jay Carney.
Carney said officials were skeptical that Republicans would actually pursue the strategy after the polling hit the party took during the government shutdown earlier this year.
"We do not expect Republicans to walk that path again, precisely because it proved so disastrous," Carney said.
But Ryan on Sunday indicated the GOP would gather after the holidays "and discuss exactly what it is we're going to try and get" in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
"We don't want nothing out of this debt limit," Ryan told Fox News. "We're going to decide what it is we can accomplish out of this debt-limit fight."
In October, Congress agreed to a deal that temporarily reopened the government and extended the debt ceiling until Feb. 7.
But Carney was insistent that "numerous statements from Republican leaders of all stripes essentially forsaking that strategy" meant the White House didn't have to worry about another debt-ceiling fight.
"We certainly don't expect them to do that again," he said.
Last month, President Obama likened the debt ceiling to a "loaded gun" at a forum with business executives.
"I think that the way our system is set up is like a loaded gun, and once people thought we can get leverage on policy disputes by threatening default, that was an extraordinarily dangerous precedent," he said.
Has anyone heard if Michelle Obama and the girls and the dogs are taking different transport?
The Obama/Senate tag team again.
Carney said officials were skeptical that Republicans would actually pursue the strategy after the polling hit the party took during the government shutdown earlier this year.
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I believe Carney is correct. Another triumph for the GOPe and the MSM.
Please, just stop it already Mr. Ryan. You've already shown yourself to be just another phony who will compromise our country away in the forlorn hope that the media will say nice things about you.
We're not as stupid as you think we are, and I'm not kicking that football any more.
Obama took the same hit in the polls at the time as the GOP but the Media lies and pretends everyone blamed the GOP.
Has this clown Carney ever stopped and taken a look at out pathetic he looks spinning whoopers for the regime anymore. It’s like watching a fool standing on the end of the titantic as it goes down and opening up a new novel to read.
Are you Marcus’ mom?
The White House doesn’t have to worry. Lesley Gore and the gang will fall right into line.
Don’t negotiate with the White House. Negotiate with real Americans in the Dem Party (if there are any left in Congress). Come up with something with majority support that cuts both “Dem” programs like welfare and “GOP” programs like the military, as a condition to raising the debt ceiling, or raise the ceiling with only one condition - no FedGov spending on ObamaCare. Then pass it and see if the Community Organizer has the guts to shut down FedGov with a veto.
Why would he negotiate? It’s as clear as the nose on your face the Pubbies are gonna roll over on this anyway.
I can hear the GOOBs now as a wet stain spreads across the front of their pants. “Yes! Sir!”
No.
Primary all Repubes that agree to any debt deal which continues the status qou. We need to pick these leeches off group by pathetic little group.
The debt ceiling is “settled law” just like Obamacare is.
“...the Pubbies are gonna roll over on this anyway”
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They will cave. Its how they roll (pun intended).
"Ho, ho, ho you suckers! Hey! Whose that little clown messing up my Mohammedan greetings to y'all?"
Rats walk in lock step with zero on the budget and debt ceiling. Bonehead and co will bargin with themselves until obama gets what he wants.
True. But it has to really suck getting punked by the likes of Carney. But then I haven’t seen any masculine characteristics in the GOPe, so maybe it isn’t even noticed.
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