Obama in 2006: "raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure."

Milwaukee Story ^ | 3.1.11 | Thomas Long

[packback]

Even in 2006, then Senator, Barack Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling stating, “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.”

[nascarnation]

Thanks!

Conservative Republicans and the Tea Party need to put billboards of this all over the country.

[cookcounty]

Without referencing the date, Congressman after Congressman, Senator after Senator should rise to effusively thank the President for his support in refusing to raise the limit, quoting him exactly.

Force the Dems to backtrack publickly.

[cookcounty]

"Add the date, and we need to buy billboards around the country!!"

NO! Leave the date off....----Let the Democrats explain it.

[SunkenCiv]

"So? You already knew I was an empty suit, or more accurately a Sock Puppet with George Soros' cold, greedy hand up my ass."

[oyez]

Obama implied to the then Republican administration, but when Democrats run up a debt, that is progress.

[packback]

Yeah it wasn’t just an offhand comment to the press or something, it was a line delivered on the floor of the US Senate. This is going to be the main narrative used at some point during the 2012 election.

[packback]

I like the idea of leaving the date off, anyway we are not talking about ancient history here, it was only 5 years ago.