Obama: Will I Agree to a Short-Term Deal? No, No, No . . . Yes
I guess this is no longer the United States of America:
Only 10 days ago, President Barack Obama appeared in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House and drew an uncompromising line in the sand on negotiations to raise the United States’ borrowing limit.
“The things that I will not consider are a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day or a 180-day temporary stopgap resolution to this problem,” Mr. Obama said. “This is the United States of America, and we don’t manage our affairs in three-month increments.”
Except, of course, when it does.
Mr. Obama signalled Wednesday he is prepared to backtrack on his earlier vow to reject any short-term agreement to raise the debt ceiling, acknowledging lawmakers now have so little time to strike a more ambitious “grand bargain” that an emergency stop gap measure may be the only option remaining.
Don’t call his bluff!
“As I have consistently said, this is the United States of America, and we don’t manage our affairs in three-month increments, but I have to go to Martha’s Vineyard with Michelle and the girls next week and then it’s my birthday the week after that.” I was only kidding about holding up those social security checks. I hope everybody realizes that.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 7/20/2011 @ 5:44 pmTeh One’s grand pronouncements cease having any meaning the moment he utters them.
JD (b98cae) — 7/20/2011 @ 6:06 pmI believe the term is “no longer operative”. If I recall correctly from the Clinton administration.
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 7/20/2011 @ 6:09 pmNot much different than backing 2300 blank pages to become law. Everything means what I mean it to be when I mean it.
Ed from SFV (7d7851) — 7/20/2011 @ 6:24 pmThis guy probably is irritating the democrats even more than he’s irritating us by this point.
What a pansy.
Dustin (b7410e) — 7/20/2011 @ 6:39 pmHe only promised to veto a 30, 60, or 90 day extension. He never promised to veto a different number of days..
Sabba Hillel (ca8ca1) — 7/20/2011 @ 6:50 pmThat’s being disrespectful of pansies everywhere.
AD-RtR/OS! (a64e11) — 7/20/2011 @ 6:52 pmThat’s it… A 5 Year Plan. What could go wrong.
BfC (2ebea6) — 7/20/2011 @ 6:57 pmThe time to call his bluff is Nov. 2012
Icy Texan (ebd4df) — 7/20/2011 @ 7:09 pma short-term deal? That was what the whole entire issue was when he started screaming at Eric Cantor and threw his shoe and ran out of the room the other day.
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 7/20/2011 @ 7:11 pmI bet he was a man and called Eric today to apologize for yelling and thanked him for the idea, though, happy.
elissa (7f84b5) — 7/20/2011 @ 7:26 pmAnti-liberal leftists are playing with our future.
DohBiden (d54602) — 7/20/2011 @ 7:51 pmWe won’t default unless obama purposely allows us too…………..which he will probably.
DohBiden (d54602) — 7/20/2011 @ 8:41 pmWow calling Palin white trash is so hilarious………..and the comedian was a black obot too.
/Sarcasm obviously
DohBiden (d54602) — 7/20/2011 @ 9:59 pm“No, No, No . . . Yes”
Jim Trott in “The Vicar of Dibley” leapt to my mind immediately.
Nate Whilk (275708) — 7/20/2011 @ 10:40 pm“I can’t believe it’s not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter“.
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 7/20/2011 @ 10:54 pmCut $500 billion right away. Give POTUS a $500 billion debt limit increase. That should be good to get him through next year to somewhere around election time, at least. Then pass the amendment. That does NOT go through his office. All it must do is pass Congress and have 67 states sign off on it.
At THAT point whatever bozo is in the White House he gets no more debt limit increases and must deal with that migraine.
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JBD (99eed4) — 7/21/2011 @ 1:01 am#6, I thought the same thing.
Sponge Bob Torquemada (786e37) — 7/21/2011 @ 7:24 amHe’d didn’t want Cantor to call his bluff cuz he wanted to do it himself
Yet another in a series of climbdowns from Dear Leader, he’s worse than Gaddafi with the pretending all his defeats are victories lol
Reaganite Republican (c90bca) — 7/21/2011 @ 7:53 am“Eric, don’t call my bluff. I’m not gonna let you call my bluff. I fold. Nah-nah, nah-nah, nah!”
Chipper (fe8b5a) — 7/21/2011 @ 2:30 pm“This is the United States of America, and we don’t manage our affairs in three-month increments.”
We shoot for three-hour increments, actually, and our level of success isn’t stunning even then.
bobby b (4baf73) — 7/22/2011 @ 3:39 pm