Boehner’s plan “has no chance of becoming law,” Obama said. “The time for putting party first is over. The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now. … It’s important for everybody to step up and show the leadership that the American people expect.”
Translation : Spoiled brat in chief got used to having his way when Nancy was his nanny.
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To be honest it is the conservatives, sorry republicans, coming off worse here.
They can’t even have a unified voice .. that is not a good recipe for succes.
Andy
ZZZZzzzz….
Andy – you may well be right.
But you haven’t considered the politics. The tea people may be thinking ‘do I save the country or do I get re-elected?’. I suspect they lean towards the former:
“The game of chicken “has to be dangerous in order to give people the incentive to cooperate. It helps if you are crazy or if you pretend to be crazy,” Prof. Goldstein said.”
Bruce, the country isn’t in any peril. It never was. I believe the country would benefit greatly if Congress just sat on the bill in didn’t pass any credit extension. It is only the discretionary spending that was ever in peril. The U.S. gets enough monthly income to more than pay for all of its obligations.
Exactly, the news media has been playing this like some football game.
Our bills are covered, our interest is covered…
…what isn’t covered is Nancy’s private jet
Andy, it was that stupid liberal kumbaya unified bullcrap that got us in this mess…………
AndyW says:
July 29, 2011 at 11:39 pm
To be honest it is the conservatives, sorry republicans, coming off worse here.
You are wrong AndyW. Obama has fallen to his lowest job approval in the Gallup Poll:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/148739/Obama-Approval-Drops-New-Low.aspx
It is Obama that is coming off the worse.
Also, since Obama went to Twitter this week looking for support he has been dropped by 40,000 followers:
http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/07/29/2011-07-29_bams_spam_president_barack_obama_takes_debt_battle_to_twitter_loses_more_than_20.html
I liked to read your post a lot when I posted on Whatts site. But Now I don’t like your site.
syou are never talk science any more. only some weather news or older records plus some biased political views.
Your blog not real science at all.
I’m devastated
please don’t type while you’re doing whatever it is you’re doing………….
ROFLMAO!
Hey,
That’s not fair latitude. His post and tying his shoes once in 1976 are his contribution to society.
I’m pretty sure that weather is related to climate science, especially older records of weather that show extremes have occurred many times in the past, contrary to what many climate alarmists make out.
I’m also pretty sure that no-one is holding a gun to your head saying you need to visit here.
old record no gud. me take my bawl an go avay
There’s no compromise……Obama never had a plan, he let it out that he had some ‘secret’ plan, but no one ever knew what that was…
Compromise to him was do it his way, the way he wanted it…..only
We can all thank the tea party for this taking so long…
…most people aren’t sharp enough to get it
Because of the tea party, there was no pork attached to this.
…..it’s really hard to get something passed in Washington and not be able to buy votes…
Obama tried, but he was caught………..
Indeed, in spite of the spin, it is my hope people will give credit where credit is due. It is solely the Tea Party being responsible for this trimmed bill. Hopefully, this will be the first of many such events.
amen……
and the liberal news media is going nuts!
Lat:
That warms the Cockles of my little Pea Picken Heart!
I got a warm glowey too!
Republicans are going nuts too. I really liked when I heard this week, don’t remember exactly now who and where it was, but he said Boehner’s position as House Speaker may be in trouble. There’s enough votes to replace him. I don’t think it will come to pass though.
Suyts – doesn’t look like it. The Senate voted down the Republican bill 59:41, which means a few Republicans broke ranks to vote against it. If Mr Reid’s bill makes it to Congress this weekend it might pass on the Democrats plus a few very scared Republicans.
Of course they might be even more scared of their own party whips. And their voters…
I’ve no skin in this game, but I’d hate the whole US ending up like California running on IOU’s half the time. On the other hand why make a $14.3T debt any bigger?
What you have described is typical of the machinations of a split Congress. This occurred throughout Reagan’s term when (for about half the time) he had a SLIGHTLY (R) Senate but they were in the minority when you counted RINOs as (D). The split Congress will thwart any budget rollbacks every time. Look here …
Deficits-Surplus by Congressional Control 1995-2009
Pay attention to the color codes of the datapoints. The color Purple is a split Congress which occurs approx 2001-2004 and helped to destroy the balanced budgets recently achieved (yes there is some 9/11 funding but not $300 billion).
We are now in a repeat once again. We manage to get about 30 TEA Party candidates into the house and maybe 3 in the Senate. The Senate is not only controlled by (D), but overwhelming when you count the RINOs.
If there are any cuts and rollbacks on these next two budgets … it will be a miracle.
I think they should all be kicked out and replaced with retired Blue Collar workers that never held any political office and had to live within their means.
Hurry August 3rd!
“The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now.”
I think the American people are tired of ‘compromise’ and want a solution. They still don’t get it.