“He is NOT a king...”
In one of his Q&A sessions, his EXACT answer was, “I am not King.” Not ‘a king.’ It’s the little words that give so much meaning. And the impossibly ignored syntactic device: the mysterious :
Here’s some excerts from politico take, which I won’t link...
When Cantor said the two sides were too far apart to get a deal that could pass the House by the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadline — and that he would consider moving a short-term debt-limit increase alongside smaller spending cuts — Obama began to lecture him
.“Cantor rudely interrupted the president three times to advocate for short-term debt ceiling increases while the president was wrapping the meeting.
Cantor accused the president and congressional Democrats of progressively low-balling, over the last several days, the savings that could be achieved from proposals discussed by Vice President Joe Biden’s working group on deficit reduction. Cantor warned that the group has not identified enough cuts to win House passage of a $2.5 trillion debt-limit increase — the size the president says is needed to get through the 2012 election, sources told POLITICO.
“Eric, don’t call my bluff,” the president said, warning Cantor that he would take his case “to the American people.” He told Cantor that no other president — not Ronald Reagan, the president said — would sit through such negotiations.
Obama told Cantor that he would either have to agree to tax increases or give up on his demand that the debt hike be matched dollar-to-dollar to the cuts