President Obama laments the debt talks

Politico ^ | 07/22/2011 | Politico

[upchuck]

Do you have a specific link?

[Wuli]

Congressional GOP MUST

1. Stop “negotiating” with Obama.

2. Constrict all “negotiation” within the confines of:

a. The House passed Ryan Budget Plan

b. A Senate/Democrat alternative to that

c. A House/Senate Conference Committee tasked with trying to make a single, compromise bill from the two.

There is nothing to “negotiate” with Obama over until Harry Reid has the Senate do it’s Constitutionally required function of legislating.

Quit giving Obama means to promote his media agenda that “HE” is doing something.

The only thing he is actually doing is calling meetings for the single purpose of going out to the microphones to claim he has been “negotiating”.

He is pretending to play “good cop” to Harry Reid’s “bad cop”, in a joint plan to simply run down the clock to default and then blame the success in creating that crisis as the GOPs “fault”.

While future deficits are a huge problem.

Resolving them in a “big and historic” plan is NOT the immediate problem.

The IMMEDIATE problem is today’s spending in the discretionary portion of everything the Executive Branch spends - Obama’s spending agenda.

The manufactured “crisis” is an attempt to avoid line item budget negotiations between the House and Senate over Obama’s discretionary spending; and take the legislative approval over the ‘debt limit’ directly to big general numbers on discretionary spending that do not question specific current spending excess.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Free America52. Zero should resign if the job is too demanding on time he would otherwise spend with his private-schooled children.

[Soul of the South]

Good edit.

[Outlaw Woman]

Thx...glad you didn’t mind.

[fightinJAG]

You said it.

Last week Chris Christie said he didn’t want to run for President right now because he didn’t want to miss his kids’ growing up years.

That is all.