Posted on 09/15/2013 10:58:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, in an interview broadcast on Sunday, blamed conservative Republicans for a stalemate on the budget and insisted that while he is willing to haggle over taxes and government spending, he will not make a deal would that would impose conditions on increasing the nation's debt limit.
With a possible government shutdown looming in two weeks, and the threat of a U.S. debt default as early as mid-October, Obama said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that it is up to lawmakers to work out a budget.
He insisted the budget should contain enough spending to help support economic growth and said he will not allow Republicans to attach conditions to raising the $16.7 trillion U.S. borrowing cap.
"We've presented our budget," Obama said. "Now it's the job of Congress to come up with a budget that keeps our long-term trends of ... reducing the deficit moving forward, but also allows us to invest in the things we need to grow."
Obama said trading cuts to his signature healthcare program in exchange for an increase in the nation's borrowing limit is not an option. "What I haven't been willing to negotiate, and will not negotiate, is on the debt ceiling," he said.
With the crisis over Syria off the boil, Washington faces yet another fiscal showdown. Most government operations will cease on Oct. 1 unless Congress passes a budget the president will accept and the United States risks a debt default as early as mid-October if lawmakers delay raising the borrowing cap.
Obama and the Republican-led House of Representatives remain at loggerheads over both the budget and the debt limit. Republican lawmakers have sought to make defunding the president's signature healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, a condition for raising...
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Obama’s just a frickin idiot trying to sell snake oil here to other frickin idiots.
Yup. They’ll never fight any battle. Totally ill-equipped, ill-prepared and unwilling to even try. They don’t even talk a good game. Pray for a grassroots tea party takeover next year.
That's what it's going to take. Nothing less.
After Putin had his way with Obama, you’d think he couldn’t walk strait.
I read this as putting the onus on Repubs to give Zero what he wants so as to not shut down the government. I say, if the Zero King won't sign the People's Bill, he's responsible for shutting it down.
...while he is willing to haggle over taxes and government spending, he will not make a deal would that would impose conditions on increasing the nation's debt limit.Start impeachment proceedings over his criminal acts while in office, and see what "Plugs" Biden will sign when he climbs up on that stool to sit in the big chair.
Obama cracks me up. It’s as if he really thinks he knows something about anything.
What a dick.
Adopt NANCY REAGAN’S slogan... “JUST SAY NO!!!!!!!!!”
Right through America's economic future.
This REALLY pisses me off.
nobama raving about a budget when he hasn’t presented one to Congress in the last umpteen years.
Hey nobama, it’s a CONTINUING RESOLUTION because you and the pussies in Congress are a bunch of losers.
And I sincerely hope the CR coming from the House will contain NO funding for nobamacare.
Well-stated and worth repeating, Jim. Your post & tagline BUMP!
Thank you, sir...for everything.
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