Posted on 08/13/2016 6:46:50 AM PDT by Theoria
Poor Obama, the reluctant fascist dictator. I wonder how hard it is to become a Russian citizen? At this rate, if Hillary becomes President, it will be a better country. Pathetic, isn’t it? The west defeats Soviet Russia then becomes what it so recently destroyed.
It’s like they think “what’s the most ridiculous title we can write and the suckers will still buy?”
Obama is praised for ‘embracing’ executive authority, but Nixon and Reagan were criticized for ‘imperial presidencies.’
He was only against presidential power when he was lying about presidential power while running for president.
The NYTimes is propping up his lies (their lies!) again. Obola/Soros/Pelosi/Reid were ALWAYS about acquiring and using raw power.
He tried to create a monarchy. Didn’t we get rid of that in the late 1700’s?
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That is not all he has changed his tone about -
The full text of Sen. Obama’s remarks in the Senate on 16 March 2006 are:
Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.
Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.
Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.
And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like
bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on. Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Instead, interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans — a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.
But we are not doing that. Despite repeated efforts by Senators Conrad and Feingold, the Senate continues to reject a return to the commonsense Pay-go rules that used to apply. Previously, Pay-go rules applied both to increases in mandatory spending and to tax cuts. The Senate had to abide by the commonsense budgeting principle of balancing expenses and revenues. Unfortunately, the principle was abandoned, and now the demands of budget discipline apply only to spending. As a result, tax breaks have not been paid for by reductions in Federal spending, and thus the only way to pay for them has been to increase our deficit to historically high levels and borrow more and more money. Now we have to pay for those tax breaks plus the cost of borrowing for them. Instead of reducing the deficit, as some people claimed, the fiscal policies of this administration and its allies in Congress will add more than $600 million in debt for each of the next 5 years. That is why I will once again cosponsor the Pay-go amendment and continue to hope that my colleagues will return to a smart rule that has worked in the past and can work again.
Our debt also matters internationally. My friend, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, likes to remind us that it took 42 Presidents 224 years to run up only $1 trillion of foreign-held debt. This administration did more than that in just 5 years. Now, there is nothing wrong with borrowing from foreign countries. But we must remember that the more we depend on foreign nations to lend us money, the more our economic security is tied to the whims of foreign leaders whose interests might not be aligned with ours.
Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.’’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.
“an army of lawyers”
Yes, that is how we are ruled in this great republic of ours....
sure, Obozo was “skeptical of executive power” when opponents were in office.... but he embraced the most expansive conception of presidential power ever when he occupied the office!! Just another way in which he is a lying dangerous hypocrite.
What total BS. Obama NEVER “opposed” executive power. He only opposed Bush using it.
Barky only had deep misgivings about executive power when a Republican was POTUS. Once The One (aka Soros) took it, all misgivings disappeared and The One (aka Soros) energetically used the Potus Power Pen with glee.
Tag line.
“an army of lawyers”
Is this any different than a swarm of officers
sent to eat out our substance?
It is worse....
We know the mainstream press is a Democracy Democratic mouthpiece because of Hillary’s e-mails. Everything they say must be viewed through that prism.
Snap reporting NYT. 7 1/2 years and you’re on the case as usual.
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