Posted on 06/29/2011 4:45:25 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon
Amid ongoing frustration over a failure to reach a compromise on the debt limit, President Obama on Wednesday sharply scolded Congress, suggesting his daughters do a better job of getting things done ahead of time.
"Malia and Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time," Obama said during a press conference--his first major solo conference since March. "Malia's 13, Sasha's 10 … They don't wait until the night before. They're not pulling all nighters. Congress can do the same thing."
The president has been overseeing the negotiation of a compromise between the White House and lawmakers that would pave the way for Congress to agree to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by the current ceiling's Aug. 2 deadline--the time when economists, the president and others say the government will no longer have tools at its disposal to pay its bills.
Obama said he's "very amused" to hear critics in Congress say he needs to show "more leadership" on this issue. Obama noted that he's met with congressional leaders, all the party caucuses and said "at a certain point, they need to do their job."
The president threatened to effectively "ground" Congress this week ahead of the July 4 recess if a deal is not reached.
"We're going to start having to cancel things and stay here until we get it done" Obama said, intimating that recess would be called off.
Republicans say a deal to increase the debt limit must include offsets via spending cuts.
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Look kids, OBAMA...the funny clown!
did Sasha and Malia remind you, Dear Leader, that you had to submit 2011’s budget in 2010? Do they know you still haven’t done so (last I heard)>
Does this guy ever say stuff that isn’t idiotic nonsense?
What a jive-turkey.
One of BO’s absolute ugliest moments in office. While he and his Democrat slugs have produced no budget for as long as he’s been in office, he has the gall to blame Republicans for his abject failure as president. He is losing it, big time.
Can Obama be any more cringe making?
I think he can.
Is that going to infringe on his 57th vacation this year? What an absolute asscrack! What a damned stupid fool! I hope the dummycrats go zooming down the toilet in 2012 with this unemployable circus clown.
Why state that the date is Aug 2nd? Why was it not Dec 31st, 2010?
Ramadan starts Aug 1st.
Eid al Fitr is Aug 30th.
0bama has his hajj to do........
Obama is a Idiot ,unfit to clean portable toilets,Lecturing people??? That is a complete joke!
POTUS Obama is gone from the White house so much,. and away from his kids.. how would he know when they do their home work...
barry the zero continues to have this bizarre concept that the USA is a corporation (which ironically he has never worked for in his adult life) where he is the CEO and Congress reports to him and the American People report to them.
Someone needs to tell him that he has it inverted: congress works for we the people and the president reports back to the people’s representatives.
barry, wag your damn finger one more time and we can arrange to have it bitten off...
He acts like the type who paid people with grandma’s money to do his homework while he was playing BB and smoking weed.
Was he at work today? Maybe the Dems could have submitted a budget in the last 2 yrs?
Pray for America
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Heard on Hannity that Malia is 12 years old, Not 13! Seriously, if you are going to interject your daughter’s into this, at least know how old they are.
How the hell can you equate two kids doing 15 minutes of homework to the Congress of the United States? You have to be an idiot.
But....Obama is taking his family on vacation to the coast?
What is a “portable toilet”?
You soften the blows. I cannot meaningfully express my anger without cursing this motherfooking $on of a Beech.
He is one “Sarcastic Community Organizer” isn’t he????
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