- just in case it doesn't understand English.
Posted on 09/19/2011 9:15:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He’s got a deficit-reduction package that can’t clear the House, thanks to massive new tax hikes that everyone knows are a deal-killer. He has a jobs package that can’t clear the Senate. What’s a President to do? Threaten a veto:
President Obama warned he will veto any deficit plan brought to him by Congress that wasn’t ‘balanced’ between taxes and spending cuts.
‘We are not going to have a one-sided deal that hurts the folks who are most vulnerable,’ Obama said Monday morning, speaking from the Rose Garden.
He rejected accusations that tax increases for the wealthy was ‘class warfare’.
The president argued, as he has repeatedly, that wealthier Americans ‘shouldn’t get a better deal than ordinary families.’.
“This is not class warfare, it’s math. The money’s going to have to come from some place,” the president said, speaking to reporters. “If we’re not willing to ask those who’ve done extraordinarily well to help America close the deficit, the logic, the math says everybody else has to do a whole lot more. “
What’s so surprising about this rhetoric is how unsurprising it is. Obama has been making this same exact argument for years, starting in the 2008 campaign, but accelerating last year. Obama made the exact same argument — and veto threat, too — just before caving in December 2010 and agreeing to extend the Bush-era tax rates.
The threat is as empty as the rhetoric. Let’s say for argument’s sake that the House and Senate passed a bill that accomplished significant deficit reduction through entitlement reform without Obama’s John Edwards-like Two Americas tax policy. Does anyone believe that Obama would veto a bill backed by both a Republican House and a Democratic Senate? Would Obama really want to make himself look like the least bipartisan political leader in Washington DC? There isn’t a chance in Hades that he would veto such a bill, even though getting such a bill to the White House would have almost as small a chance in the first place.
With even his own party insisting that they’re not going to bite on more spending and higher taxes, Obama’s already starting to isolate himself on economic policy. He issued this warning in a sad attempt to impress a few people on the Left with his “leadership,” but issuing empty threats isn’t real leadership. It’s an expression of political impotence.
Call his bluff.
- just in case it doesn't understand English.
Fu obama... we are going to **** you out of your job soon... bastard.
LLS
Obozo, may I loan you a pen.
hee hee hee
FUBO!
What you are “missing” is this: Obama is not a “jerk”; Obama is an anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist, Marxist, Communist, Socialist, Afro-centric BLACK Liberation Theology RACIST who hates America and is out do destroy it from within. He is not a jerk...he is “a man with a plan” and he is working it 24/7.
$3 in taxes for $1 in cuts? That’s balanced? Barry is unbalanced.
Don’t look now, but the American voter is about to veto you, Mr. P.
Sorry, gut the man is a jerk . . . a poorly educated, and small-minded jerk . . . witness his reluctance to show us his grades in any level of school . . . witness his inability to think without a teleprompter . . . witness his baptism and immersing in horribly failed communistic and socialistic principles . . . witness his total contempt for the most successful system of government ever tried in world history.
I could go on and on and on and on.
But you already got twice as much money as the other presidents! Uh, would that be Kenya or Indonesia sir?
If it gets to his desk including thru a Dem controlled Senate, then I would say he has a real problem politically. Make my day....
When the Bush tax cuts were to expire according to boy blunder it would be bad for the economy. What is the difference this time around Forrest Obama?
He needs a tax increase, any tax increase. Without a tax increase passing the House he has no chance of getting re-elected. With a tax increase he satisfies his base. With a tax increase he gets the conservative base to abandon the GOP. This tax increase is his only hope.
Barry the Imposter can veto anything he likes.
We are rapidly getting to the point of a Congress which will override anything he vetoes.
Some in Congress are getting the hint that they may be forced to move back to their homes after 2-12.
Barry the Imposter can veto anything he likes.
We are rapidly getting to the point of a Congress which will override anything he vetoes.
Some in Congress are getting the hint that they may be forced to move back to their homes after 2012.
Huh? No, no he’s not a “man with a plan”
He’s just an uneducated, affirmative action ideologue with the power of the Oval Office. It’s really not any more complicated that that, really.
If he were as clever as you say, he’d be able to string two sentences together that actually resembled English. He cant so he’s not.
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one
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