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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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To: Cheerio

And the ‘progressives’ thought we’d give up our Liberty!


21 posted on 08/06/2011 11:05:23 AM PDT by griswold3 (Character is Destiny)
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To: Justaham

Bambi made it clear that he was NOT going to compromise, Congress knows he is too dumb, stupid or both to know he was not “bluffing”, so they tore themselves apart, until Boehner and McConnel caved. He is the problem


22 posted on 08/06/2011 11:05:59 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Justaham

Reuters. “Divisive”. Yea, dems, just wait. You ain’t seen nothing yet. You are fools if you think you are on the right side of this debate among the ‘We The People’. Your socialism is over.


23 posted on 08/06/2011 11:06:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Cheerio
The path to a debt deal took too long and was too divisive

I don't think they know what divisive is...but just wait..here comes 2012!

24 posted on 08/06/2011 11:09:04 AM PDT by clove (God, Family and Country, the truth will live!)
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To: Farmer Dean
Now they want to work together?

When they say that they mean do it my way or get off the bus.

25 posted on 08/06/2011 11:10:44 AM PDT by clove (God, Family and Country, the truth will live!)
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To: Justaham

Those who work with and print copy supporting the insane, Reuters, are as insane as the insane. May want to find another line of work Reuters. Lies are getting older than old.


26 posted on 08/06/2011 11:10:47 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Justaham

No one who loves this country can work with the administration. Why? Because the administration hates this country.


27 posted on 08/06/2011 11:11:38 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Justaham

28 posted on 08/06/2011 11:12:17 AM PDT by tsowellfan (Let's make the 2012 campaign: "The War on Error")
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To: Farmer Dean

LOL! You got that right. One has to be a real pinhead to want to go out there everyday to defend Barry and the DemocRATS. “When you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull****!”


29 posted on 08/06/2011 11:12:25 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
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To: Justaham
lawmakers must now work together to strengthen the country's fiscal position and spur growth, White House spokesman Jay Carney said

YAWN....

30 posted on 08/06/2011 11:14:22 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Justaham

If there were a drinking game for platitudes from these imbeciles, the country would be stumbling drunk, instead of simply stumbling.


31 posted on 08/06/2011 11:15:44 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Chgogal
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%.

Further, when Reagan took office the ratio was 32.5%. When we left office, it was 53.1%.

When GHW Bush took office the ratio was 53.1%. When he left office, it was 66.1%.

When Clinton took office the ratio was 66.1%. When we left office, it was 56.4%.

32 posted on 08/06/2011 11:16:55 AM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Justaham
What was divisive, Mr. Carney, was the Obamanist push to change America! The idea that not only is the radical Left entitled to change America in a direction that the Constituion never authorized, but that they can spend our money & deplete our resources in ways that the Constitution never authorized, to accomplish their changes.

As long as you & yours war on our heritage, you had better appreciate this message. We have only just begun to separate from your course; we have only just begun to fight a change back to much that the world escaped from by many centuries of upward struggle. We do not want our rights impaired, our property confiscated--whether by direct taxation or inflation;--our children's birthright destroyed.

As for America defaulting, Mr. Carney. Just what in the Hell do you and the demagogue for whom you speak think we have been doing since a milder version of your idiocy was injected by FDR. When you pay your creditors back, not in the coin they lent you, but in devalued printing press dollars--dollars created out of nothing to fund extravagance & a deliberate corruption of millions into near perpetual dependence--what is that but a default, Mr. Carney?

Stop your damnable lying to the people. And do not ever imagine that we will not seek to divide from all that you offer.

William Flax

P.S. To all, here, at Free Republic: Sorry about the little rant. Every once and a while these Dysrons get to me.

33 posted on 08/06/2011 11:19:09 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Justaham

“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.”

Soon the electorate will have the will, capacity and commitment to work together to do better by getting Obama out of the White House.


34 posted on 08/06/2011 11:19:21 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Doe Eyes

and can you believe Obama has it up to 97%!!!!!


35 posted on 08/06/2011 11:21:21 AM PDT by lahargis
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To: Justaham

“Path to debt deal was too divisive: White House”

Heh.

If you think what we just witnessed was “divisive” — well, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!

Just sayin’ and waitin’...


36 posted on 08/06/2011 11:23:02 AM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: Justaham

Jay Carney is just a hack that says whatever Obama wants him to say. Think of ‘Baghdad Bob’ (Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf) and his laughable, divorced-from-reality pronouncements during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. When liberals talk about a person or people being ‘divisive’ they really mean that you don’t do what the liberals want you to do, e.g. Sarah Palin, the TEA party Representatives in congress. We all know that, among his many ‘firsts’, Barack Hussein Obama has been the most divisive president in modern history. The leftmedia constantly disparage the TEA party and all conservative politicians with a special emphasis on former governor Sarah Palin. Thus, Carney, representing the most liberal Democrat president in American history wagging his finger at Republicans and blabbering about ‘divisiveness’ is simply hypocrisy on stilts and can be lauged at and then ignored for the BS that it is, especially considering the source.


37 posted on 08/06/2011 11:23:11 AM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Justaham
It's divisive because there really are two Americas. Free America and Fair America. They occupy the same real estate, but are two different countries.

Obama believes in Fair America. Top down enforcement of whatever the enlightened few believe to be righteous and just. They'll decide everything for you. What to eat and drink. How much money is enough. What prices should be. The economy is the engine of utopia, nothing more.

The Tea Party version is Free America. Bottom up, responsible living by individuals who don't always agree, but agree to play well with others and respect their differences. The economy is interdependent network of millions of people working to be prosperous and independent.

Therin lies the rub. There is no freedom without economic liberty, and there is no fairness without economic control. Obama simply can't deliver on more redistribution if he can't get more control, and eliminate more freedom. Conversely, we can't fix the economy until we can cut entitlements, which are the reigns of social control.

These things can only co-exist for so long before it becomes unsustainable. In 2012, something's going to have to give.

38 posted on 08/06/2011 11:24:21 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“One has to be a real pinhead to want to go out there everyday to defend Barry”

Another such pinhead that comes to mind is Bill O’Reilly.


39 posted on 08/06/2011 11:27:38 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Steel Wolf

EXCELLENT POST. Your thoughtful and concise post wins the ‘F. A. Hayek post of the day’ award. He would be proud. Regards.


40 posted on 08/06/2011 11:32:32 AM PDT by Starboard
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