Zer0 votes “Present!”. Golf to follow in a few days.
The calamity is infecting the white house and a good portion of our government.
Just what Spooky Dude would likely like.
The coming calamity is irreversible. The administration must attempt to throw the blame at the Republicans...it is their only play.
Fine.... Let’s just end ALL Federal taxes, and fund the government by only selling Treasury Bonds! By the way they talk, you’d almost believe that’s what they are doing now.
The fact that there is no Plan B showcases the utter incompetence of this entire Administration. November 2012 can not come fast enough.
“W.H. warns of debt ‘calamity’”
and his name is Barrack Hussein Obama, umm, umm, umm!
“W.H. warns of debt ‘calamity’”
So why did the “smartest man to ever live” vote against raising the debt limit when he was a senator?
Okay, all together now, “WOLF!!!!!!!”
If an administration cries “Wolf!” 100-200 times, does anybody notice #201? I didn’t think so.
Go talk to the echo chamber nobama.
Boehner should tell them to get one.
“W.H. warns of debt ‘calamity’”
It’s like the fox warning you that your hens are in danger.
“There really is no alternative to raising the debt limit.”
Sure there is. “Hit something hard, I don’t want to limp away from this wreck.”
-Ron White
Then they should be willing to stop adding to the debt
The calamity was the election of a muslim America hating traitor.
obama is the “calamity”, the debt is the results!
Failure to raise the debt ceiling IN NO WAY means default. Current revenues are sufficient to pay the interest payments on the debt.
Obama & Co., including many Pubs, just want to spend more money & incur more debt w/o cutting anything from current spending. They can't stand the idea of an approaching election with no money to hand out to buy support. It is as simple as that.
If we raise the ceiling now, we will face an even bigger problem when we reach the new ceiling in a year or so.
It is foolish to raise the ceiling w/o some serious plan to reduce both the deficit & the debt. Since Congress has no plan & shows no inclination to cut spending, the debt ceiling is the ONLY impediment to their irresponsibility.
Any Congressman or Senator who votes to raise the debt ceiling is no patriot. They are voting to put this country in further peril & closer to REAL default.
Oh, like it was SO urgent, of paramount galactic importance that Bush sign away OUR money to bail out the banks, or calamity would result?
Or that we desperately needed thousands of coders to thwart the y2k bug otherwise the sky would FALL!
I don’t believe anything any WH admin says anymore, regardless of who resides therein. They are all CHUMPS.
OK. So let’s say we take obama at his word and the government will default.
And this would be a bad thing?
I guess the most immediate problem would be that no one would lend the USG additional money.
And this would be a bad thing?
And the government would have to spend no more than it took in.
And this would be a bad thing?
And the communist chinese and saudi arabia would be caught out with a lot of our devalued debt.
And this would be a bad thing?
And our political leadership, such as it is, would be forced to the consequences of it’s financial profligacy instead of pushing the problem onto future generations.
And this would be a bad thing?
Right....there’s no “plan”...uh huh
Whatever...this to me, is just more fear mongering. It’s ESSENTIAL, an EMERGENCY, it’ll be a CATASTROPHE, if we DON’T raise the debt ceiling. The world will collapse, the federal government will shut down.
We can’t have that happen now can we? We MUST trust this government on what they say, and take their word. If they say it’s an emergency and there’s no other way, they have no plan, we HAVE to raise that debt ceiling and let them continue spending. /sarc
PFFFFFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!