Our Petulant Child President

Not too surprising that the petulant children in the GOP once again want to put off making the hard decisions until the next election is over.

Um...

Birth certificate?

Kowtowing to GOP on health care?

Stimulus?

This president has been scrutinized and picked over more than most ever will be. I'm not an Obama apologist by any stretch, but your position is childish and ignores the glut of negativity he's had to shoulder since coming into office.

Anyway, Patriot, during the reign of Tsar W, criticizing the president in any way would have seen you rounded up and sent to Guantanamo. Just considering that Obama clearly has a sense of humor and a sense of fair negotiation means he's light years better than W in that regard.

Obama said he would not be “afraid to veto” a short-term approach or “defend it to the American people” and warned that a US debt default would amount to “a tax increase on every American,” said the aide.

Obama said “I have reached the point where I say enough,” and added “I’ve reached my limit. This may bring my presidency down, but I will not yield on this,” according to the aide.

Sounds like somebody has got the balls to say no to the teapublicans and not as the article states. Wow, try to twist the truth much?

Lemme see if I got this right...

The Republicans say the goal is to bring down the debt and propose $2 trillion in cuts, but nothing involving any tax increase ( including acting on letting the Bush-era cuts expire as they were designed to do ) would be accepted.

The White House upped the ante and offered $4 trillion in debt reduction, with even more cuts than the Republican proposal, but with some tax increases that account for less than 20% of the package, but the Republicans refused it.

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor proposed to raise the US debt ceiling in more than one catch-all vote

Given recent antics by the Republican party at the state and federal level, this sounds like a setup for a bait-and-switch, splitting the package up unto several items to vote on, promising to vote for later Dem tax proposals after the Repubs get their cuts and planning the whole time to "change their mind" and protect the corporate sponsors by refusing to meet their part of the deal once their goals are achieved.

They call this distrust based on recent history "petulance"?

I call it getting the saying about "Fool me once" right ( unlike his predecessor ) and acting accordingly with those who've earned whatever distrust is shown them.

What you have written is absolute hogwash. Even the greedy friends of the Republicans i.e. corporate America, is freaking out--for one thing, if Moody lowers our rating, there will be real economic problems. The Republican's are ONLY trying to save their party, not America. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

The president declared that the goal was a non-interim bill, a final and full proposal.

When the GOP tried to pass off the "interim solution" instead, they were roundly rebuffed, right?

The Republican's are ONLY trying to save their party, not America.

Exactly. You call it dumb, but they think they're being clever. They figure if things go to hell because of their refusal to compromise, they'll not only get votes from those who support such "cut off your nose despite your face" zealotry, but they can also count on a large number of voters forgetting Obama's attempts to reach a compromise and buy their claim that it's all the White House's fault.

If Obama pulls the other option, trying to exploit some ambiguity in the Constitution that may allow for the President to act on the idea that "this country pays its bills", to get around the vote, they get to bitch about him exceeding his authority, again leaving out their contribution to the developments leading to such an action, in 2012.

The effects on the Republicans' corporate sponsors will only add to those supporters' motivation to contribute to the 2012 campaigns, never mind that if they'd reined in their pets' anti-corporate-tax zealotry the impact on their bottom line could very well have been less than the effect of a default on the economy.

Then, of course, there's the possibility that they'll back down at the last minute and grumble their way to a compromise and avoid the default. In that case, they'll still be able to put the Weeper of the House in front of the cameras to mourn for the future generations that will have to pay off the added debt ( again, forgetting to mention their own party's contribution to said debt ) to try and get more votes against a president they'll claim had no concern for the country.

The way they see it, they can't lose regardless of how it goes. And since they themselves have said that ousting Obama in 2012 is their priority, I'd say it's safe to assume they'll have no concern about any possible catastrophic effects on the rest of us ( except how some might buy their BS ).

Boehner and McConnell are pissing their pants fore fear of not being able to get a deal through and that the GOP will be blamed for economy crashing and Cantor is being called to heal by the Wall Streeters holding his leash. They realize that they have painted themselves into a corner.

The President can surley veto a short term Debt Increase, the Debt Limit hase been raised in just a couple of hours in the past at the last minute. It only takes a very few words in the bill to say what the new limit is.

Every parent sometimes gets mad when their children miss behaves. The republicans have stomped their feet and stormed off quite a few times in this deal! I could easily see someone loosing patience with them....

Darryl Blackshear

I could easily see someone loosing patience with them....

The American public has lost their patience with them. The recalls and special elections have shown that.

The recalls and special elections have shown that.

No. The only thing that these recalls show is that LIEberals get pissy when the lose elections fair and square and instead of waiting until the next election they cowardly attempt to usurp fair and free elections because that is how the cowardly left behave.

No. The only thing that these recalls show is that LIEberals get pissy when the lose elections fair and square and instead of waiting until the next election they cowardly attempt to usurp fair and free elections because that is how the cowardly left behave.

And the RethugliCONS try and rewrite and stifle the voters than can go out and vote democrat. Or have you forgotten about the Al Franken election? It took the idiot Republican HOW long to concede the election?

The Repugs are even more pissy about losing an election. They can try all they want but the American people are fed up with the Republican's bullcrap.

They can try all they want but the American people are fed up with the Republican's bullcrap.

Nope. What Americans are sick and tired of are LIEberal's incompetence at getting them jobs and improving the economy. You can blame Bush or the color of the sky, but when it comes time in November 2012 to vote and Americans still don't have jobs and the economy still sucks then LIEberals are going to get a good repeat of 2010, working its way from the WH and then throughout congress. The cancer that is LIEberalism will be eradicated if unemployment gets worse or stays the same.

What Americans are sick and tired of are LIEberal's incompetence at getting them jobs and improving the economy.

And where's the jobs that the RepubliCONs ran on in the 2010 election? There's not been one good piece of legislation to come from their camp yet. It went from "Jobs, jobs, jobs" to "Mine, mine, mine".

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the time, time, time , yes its prime, prime, prime
i'm takin ova tracks 'cause its mine, mine, mine
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I STAY FRESH, FRESH, FRESH, FR, FR, FR, FRESH

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