Posted on 07/30/2011 4:25:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: House Republicans wasted 'precious days' with Boehner plan By Gautham Nagesh - 07/30/11 06:00 AM ET
President Obama used his his weekly address to call out House Republicans for holding up the process of getting "our fiscal house in order."
"Republicans in the House of Representatives just spent precious days trying to pass a plan that a majority of Republicans and Democrats in the Senate had already said they wouldnt vote for," Obama said in the Saturday morning message.
Late Friday, the House narrowly passed legislation authorizing a limited increase in the $14.3 trillion debt limit in exchange for more than $900 billion in spending cuts. The plan introduced by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was quickly halted by the Senate.
"I have to say, Democrats in Congress and some Senate Republicans have been listening and have shown themselves willing to make compromises to solve this crisis," Obama said.
"Now all of us including Republicans in the House of Representatives need to demonstrate the same kind of responsibility that the American people show every day," Obama added. "The time for putting party first is over. The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now."
The president warned that a failure to pass a budget deal before Tuesday could result in the U.S. losing its Triple A credit rating, which would result in higher interest rates on mortgages, car loans and credit cards.
"That would be inexcusable, and entirely self-inflicted by Washington," the president said. "The power to solve this is in our hands. All that's needed is a simple vote that Democrats and Republicans have taken for decades."
Obama said the two parties are "not that far apart" on a final deal. He said a rough agreement has been reached on how much spending to cut and on a process to tackle tax and entitlement reform. But he emphasized that raising the debt ceiling is an issue of the nation being able to pay its existing bills, not new spending.
Raising the debt ceiling "gives the United States of America the ability to keep its word," Obama said. "And it will let businesses and our economy breathe a sigh of relief."
The president argued the House GOP plan would force the government to re-live the same tense situation in a few short months and said any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan so it can pass both chambers of Congress.
The true WTF moment was this Obama quote...
“The power to solve this is in our hands on a day when weve been reminded how fragile the economy already is, he said. If we do not come to an agreement, we could lose our countrys triple-A credit rating ... because we did not have a triple-A political system to match.
This guy lectured on the constitution? What's not AAA about our system? As compared to what? Greece?
Yep.
Yesterday my most leftist cousin tweeted “Finally, something we can work with” when the Boehner bill was passed.
Two hours later he tweeted “WTF? Tabled? IDIOTS!” when the bill was tabled in the stenate.
While deeply flawed, if the Senate does not come back with the Boehner bill, it should be defeated.
Don’t forget, his multi-million dollar nation-wide birthday extravaganza is in a couple of days.
Exactly!
Exactly.
The House should have passed CCB much earlier, then waited for the Senate to counter with a proposal of their own that they could get 60 votes for. Then it should have gone to reconciliation and finally they would then have left it for Obama—and dared him to veto something both sides of Congress had passed on a bipartisan basis.
All this other BS that Boehner and McConnell put the country through to get a far worse bill was simply intended to thwart the will of the GOP majority in Congress (and the American people).
He needs to be told in no uncertain terms that he arrange to accept what the House decides to give him or move aside.
Hate filled. Obama appears to believe what he heard in Wright's church, is filled with resentment, and is driven to push that ideological agenda. I think it was Van Jones who said that the US ‘had plenty of money, but it needed to be distributed better’. Seems that Obama believes the same.
Who is up at 6am to listen to him and are people actually swayed by his words?
“I have to say, Democrats in Congress and some Senate Republicans have been listening and have shown themselves willing to make compromises to solve this crisis,” Obama said.
Refusing to vote on every bill is compromise? What language does he speak?
How many “precious” days has it been since the Democrats passed a budget?
How long has the wastrel been pretending to be Presidential? I VOTE NO confidence in the Communist and evil Administration the spawn of Satan has constructed.Like his soul mate Adolf Hitler I find Barry Soetoro aka Barak Husein Obama I utterly repulsive,
If you didn’t waste money, barry, they wouldn’t have to waste their time seeking a solution for your addiction to other people’s money.
Pretty mad aren’t you?
Can’t say as I blame you.
Have you wondered what will happen when we have gotten this debt ceiling past Obama’s next election?
Obama wouldn’t sign a short term debt limit increase because he wanted to kick the can down the road a bit farther.
Past his next election cycle you know.
What really sickens me is what the next poor bastard who gets elected will face. We might get away with this debt limit for a while by buying that debt with newly printed money that isn’t worth the paper it is printed on, but sooner or later we will pay big time for this illegitimate Kenyans time in the White House.
Obama keeps saying he inherited this mess, well he is leaving a legacy behind him the no man or country should have to face.
Certainly I blame Obama and his arrogance, but I also blame the Democrats and those RINO’s who suck their butts.
The only plan they had was to reject the republican plan and then put out this statement. This is BS. This is obama’s fault that this has gone down to wire and it was deliberate. This budget should have been done a long time ago.
If any of the Founding Fathers were alive today, this turd would be facing an imminent duel...
Obama is such a F*ing A*hole I can’t stand to see or read anything he says. Like his overlord Lucifer and the other minions from Hell (Soros, Pelosi, Schumer, Sheila Jackson Lee, Deborah Widemouth-Schultz and Reid), he constantly lies and distorts the truth - should this not be a sign to other Americans that he is pure EVIL?
People better be preparing for TEOTWAWKI, because Obama and the other Marxist-Democrat are leading us to the end of America in a hurry. We will soon be on the other side of history wondering what happened. America has contacted a self-inflicted wound that may be mortal.
Obama: House Republicans wasted ‘precious days’ with Boehner plan.
Unlike house Democrats wasted a year with Obamacare plan.
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