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Path to debt deal was too divisive: White House
Reuters ^
| 8-6-11
Posted on 08/06/2011 10:51:46 AM PDT by Justaham
The path to a debt deal took too long and was too divisive, and lawmakers must now work together to strengthen the country's fiscal position and spur growth, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Saturday.
"It is important that our elected leaders come together to strengthen our economy and put our nation on a stronger fiscal footing," Carney said in a statement a day after ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time.
The White House said the deal to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling, sealed with the nation near default after months of fractious negotiations between the Obama administration and Congress, was "an important step in the right direction."
"Yet the path to getting there took too long and was at times too divisive," Carney said. "We must do better to make clear our nation's will, capacity and commitment to work together to tackle our major fiscal and economic challenges."
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KEYWORDS: messydemocracy
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:51:48 AM PDT
by
Justaham
To: Justaham
Just you wait boy king - you think you just saw divisive?
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:54:13 AM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: Justaham
It takes two to Tango, Carney Barker....
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:54:17 AM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: Justaham
Drill, drill, drill.
Forget controlling CO2.
Cut spending.
Cut other regulations.
Have Zer0 resign.
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:54:36 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Justaham
No. President Downgrade spends too much.
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:54:52 AM PDT
by
lahargis
To: Justaham
You ain’t seen nothing yet. “Draw the distinctions with big od colors, not soft pastels.”. Republicans need to hammer on Obama Reid Pelosi Gethner incessantly. Kick that poser hard when he’s down!
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:56:00 AM PDT
by
LALALAW
(one of the asses whose sick of our "ruling" classes)
To: Justaham
There are over 300 million people living in this country and the best the White House can do is hire this moron little Jay Jay Carney. Geeesh!
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:56:02 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
To: Justaham
Yeah, I guess we should just “sit in the back”
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:56:26 AM PDT
by
tsowellfan
(Let's make the 2012 campaign: "The War on Error")
To: Justaham
?????? For the last 2.5 years these F’ers have done everything conceivable to ruin this country.Now they want to work together?
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:56:48 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Justaham
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:57:23 AM PDT
by
Cringing Negativism Network
(We are not tea partiers ... we are good tea partiers. Life-long tea partiers)
To: Justaham
This from the same leader who said that he would bring a gun to the fight if his enemy brought a knife?
Uh huh.
To: FlingWingFlyer
Jay’s the only person stupid enough to work that job.Any sane person would just say Hell no.
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:58:52 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Justaham
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posted on
08/06/2011 10:59:33 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Justaham
More top-down dictatorship from the White House would be more unified and would take less time.
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posted on
08/06/2011 11:00:36 AM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: Justaham
And just who was calling one side terrorists????
The ‘Rat steno-corpse eats what’s spoon fed them then they spew it out their other end and call it objective news reporting.
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posted on
08/06/2011 11:00:56 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: Justaham
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posted on
08/06/2011 11:01:03 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
To: Justaham
Path to debt deal was too divisive: White House
Thus, he who attempts (GREATLY) to divide this nation by class and race, speaks.
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posted on
08/06/2011 11:02:39 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: Justaham
Translation: “Shut up and do what you’re told.”
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posted on
08/06/2011 11:02:49 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Justaham
When Clinton left office, the debt to GDP ratio was 57%. When Bush left office (eight years later), the ratio was 69%. After 2.5 years of the Obama/Mugabe Rule the ratio is 97%.
The Senate has not had a budget for more than 800+ days. You Obama, after being warned by the rating agencies proposed such an irresponsible budget that it was voted down by the Reid Senate by 97-0.
Your buddies, Pelosie and Reid have had control of the House and Senate from January 1 2007. You and your fellow dems have been in control of the purse for 5 years now.
The Repubs have had the House for just 8 months now. They have passed the Ryan bill which you ferociously attacked. The House passed the CC&B bill that was tabled by the Senate and was declared DOA by you. How is this fiscal mess the Republicans’ fault?
OBAMA = EPIC FAIL
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posted on
08/06/2011 11:02:49 AM PDT
by
Chgogal
(WSJ, Krauthammer, Rove et. al., STFU. Thank you.)
To: Justaham
“Work together (with us).”
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posted on
08/06/2011 11:03:01 AM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
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