Posted on 09/24/2013 3:34:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
President Obama pledged to end partisanship, but instead has exacerbated it. He recently accused House Republicans of being extortionists for opposing a raise in the debt ceiling and wanting to defund Obamacare.
Dictionary.com defines extortion as “the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one’s office or authority.”
Republicans should fling the extortion label back at the president, who wants to raise the debt ceiling, threatening to curtail many government operations if the GOP doesn’t surrender.
Barack Obama once held the opposite position about debt and ceilings. In 2006, when George W. Bush was president, Sen. Obama said: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.” Really? What, then, does it say about his leadership now?
Sen. Obama went on (as he always does): “It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies…”
As president, Mr. Obama has increased our debt and reliance on foreign governments to finance his fiscal policies. Are they any less reckless than when he was complaining about the fiscal policies of the Bush administration? If $16 trillion in debt isn’t enough, what is? The sky is no longer the limit. We’re now in financial deep space.
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BTTT
Cal Thomas is dead on the mark.
“We’re now in financial deep space”
scary times ahead, uncharted territory here, and I would just like to see us make it past 2014-2015,
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