You mean like in 2006, NelsonIdiot, when NONE of the Dems voted to raise the debt ceiling? Help me out here idiot cause all I see is “a failure of leadership”.....you, that which the AnointedIdiot asserted...also in 2006..... =.=
the rats want a compromise and more balanced approach- just like obummercare and the stimuloss where politics played no part in anything!!! LOL
April 14, 2011
Reid Admits 2006 Debt Ceiling Vote ‘Was a Political Maneuver by We Democrats’
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today told ABC News that he feels “embarrassed” that four years ago he argued against raising the country’s debt limit.
“Why is it right to increase our nation’s dependence on foreign creditors?” Reid said on March 16, 2006. “Democrats won’t be making an argument to support this legalization, which will weaken our country.”
In an interview today on ABC’s “Top Line” with Jonathan Karl and Amy Walter, Reid said those comments were a mistake.
“I shouldn’t have done that. I’m kinda embarrassed I did. It was a political maneuver by we Democrats. The Republicans were in power – there were more of them,” Reid said. “The president voted when he was in the Senate the same way. I heard him apologize for it. We all should take a look at how we handle these issues, but that doesn’t take into consideration the numerous times, the numerous times I voted to raise the debt ceiling. The one time I tried to make a political issue of it, I wish I hadn’t.”
Goolsbee’s debt limit comments conflict with Obama’s 2006 vote
By: Rob Bluey
01/03/11 5:44 PM
White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said Sunday that failing to raise the nation’s debt limit would be “catastrophic.” Yet his boss, then-Sen. Barack Obama, opposed a debt limit increase in 2006 and didn’t even show up to vote on it in 2007 and 2008.
Goolsbee’s comments were viewed as an opening salvo for the White House as it pushes back against conservative criticism of raising the debt ceiling. With many tea party activists voicing alarm about the prospect a vote on the debt limit early this year, Goolsbee said it’s “not a game.”
“If we get to the point where you’ve damaged the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity,” Goolsbee said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I don’t see why anybody’s talking about playing chicken with the debt ceiling.”
That’s a sharp contrast from the position of Obama in 2006, while serving as an Illinois senator. Obama joined all Senate Democrats to oppose the 2006 debt limit increase.
“Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren,” Obama said in 2006. “America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”
Obama later missed two votes in 2007 and 2008 while campaigning for president. Many Democrats who opposed the 2006 increase flipped their position once they took control of the Senate.
Katrina Trinko first reported Obama’s comments and 2006 vote on National Review Online.