Posted on 09/18/2013 9:27:25 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: GOP wants to 'extort' me with shutdown threat By Justin Sink - 09/18/13 11:29 AM ET
President Obama on Tuesday accused congressional Republicans of mounting an unprecedented attempt to "extort" him, vowing he won't allow a pattern "by which the full faith and credit of the United States becomes a bargaining chip."
Speaking to a group of some of the nation's most powerful corporate executives at the Business Roundtable, Obama said Republicans were pursuing an "ideological fight that says we're not going to pass a budget and threaten a government shutdown unless we repeal the Affordable Care Act."
Obama implored the gathering of CEOs to use "your influence in whatever way you can to get back to what used to be called regular order around here," arguing that the threat of "apocalypse every three months" was hurting the American economy.
"You have never seen in the history of the U.S. [an attempt to use] the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling to extort a President or a governing party," the president told a group of corporate executives at the Business Roundtable.
The president has leaned on the corporate group in past battles with House Republicans over the debt ceiling. Shortly after the presidents last visit in December for a speech and closed-door discussion, the CEOs sent a letter to congressional leaders arguing all options including tax increases should be on the table as negotiators sought a fiscal-cliff deal.
That gesture, a reversal from the groups stance just five months earlier, ratcheted up pressure on congressional Republicans. The GOP subsequently stumbled, and Obama struck a deal that many Democrats embraced.
Republicans on Capitol Hill dismissed the president's remarks. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) accused the president of employing "scare tactics" to gain leverage.
"No one is threatening to default," said Boehner aide Brendan Buck. "The president only uses these scare tactics to avoid having to show the courage needed to deal with our debt crisis. Every major deficit deal in the last 30 years has been tied to a debt limit increase, and this time should be no different."
Boehner's office also circulated a floor speech from the president's time in the Senate, in which the president declares his intention to oppose an increase to America's debt limit and declares that "America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership."
Obama acknowledged on Wednesday that the debt ceiling had become "a fun talking point for politics" because "it sounds terrible," admitting that he had engaged in political theater during his time in the Senate.
"It's always a tough vote because the average person thinks raising the debt ceiling must mean adding to the debt," Obama said.
But, Obama said, the debt ceiling always got raised. He asked business leaders to imagine the reverse if a Democratic Speaker of the House threatened to default if corporate income taxes weren't raised 20 percent.
"I'm happy to negotiate with them around the budget, just as I have done in the past," Obama said. "What I will not do is create a habit, a pattern, by which the full faith and credit of the United States becomes a bargaining chip."
The president also implored the business group to continue lobbying House Republicans to support immigration reform, as it has in the past. Earlier this summer, Motorola chief executive Greg Brown sent a letter on behalf of the group to every member of the House imploring them to make successful consideration of immigration reform a top priority.
Obama said passing reform "can add potentially a trillion dollars to our economy" and aid the business leaders' bottom lines.
"The problem is, this town, Washington, is locked up," Obama said. "And we are not seeing the kind of progress that we should on these issues."
Never seen a president spend like you either.
Never seen a president spend like you either.
I wish there was a prominent Republican who would be so persistent in advancing conservatives..a conservative "pit bull" if you will.
I would welcome an immediate rebuttal of all Pres Zer0's speeches, given within a hour of any Presidential comments.
Who the hell would invite Obama to a Business Roundtable in the first place?
What he knows about BUSINESS I could write on the side of an oreo cookie with a Sharpie pen.
In an interview with George Stephanopolous—I can lie for any Democrat-—
Obama stated “I have cut the deficit in half”.
Georgie didn’t bat an eyelash.
I almost choked on my morning cereal.
He’s doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
Shut in down! Shut the corrupt enemy of the people down. Kick them out of our buildings and lock the doors until the bastards sober up, come back to their districts, and acknowledge who is really in charge, who owns the buildings they work in, whose money it is they are squandering, who it is that they work for, and whose government this really is.
How about cutting government? Nothing will shut down if spending is cut as he is the manager of his allocated funds. Only him, ths executive, nd not Congress, is responsible for shutting down government.
This is a recipe fod him saying he is not happy with xurren tax revenes, he wants it all and to burn it all like the Joker. This is a straight train to the human sewage gulag program. It is Cain murdering Abel, in the same ploy of Lenin murdering Russia and the Tsar or Hitler going after a jew to burn at the stake.
My gosh. How many votes did Obama extort for Obamacare with promises he didn’t keep, rides on AF 1, golf games, dinners, etc, etc....
De-fund the Executive Branch, including all the Czars.....
The best way to fix a broken system is to SHUT IT DOWN, and THEN fix it.
Newt SHUT DOWN the US Federal Government in the 1990s and it WORKED!
The Liberal Agenda Media and the Democrats boo-hooed to this day, but Newt achieved success.
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The only way to force a spoiled brat to behave is to punish, punish, punish.
The worst punishment that a Democrat, or RINO can imagine is to take away their ability to spend our tax dollars.
The best way to do that is to shutdown the non-essental parts of the US Federal Government, starting with mothballing Air Force One.
How utterly satisfying that would be to witness.
And how reflective of how screwed up everything is, that I would actually relish the president of the United States having a freakin melt down!
We really do live in a matrix.
His long-anticipated meltdown may be mere days away...
And forcing our representatives to vote on the bill so they could find out what was in the bill, was not extortion ?
I worry about that because Obama is not the sort likely to "melt down" without producing as much collateral damage as he can create.
When someone reaches the point where they deny saying something (i.e., the red line) that they clearly said (in public, before an international audience, and captured on video) you know that person is skirting the edges of reality. It is a dangerous thing for a leader to casually refute his own statements and attempt to obscure facts to protect his image. The problem for us is that he puts himself ahead of the country. Its all about him.
The Zero King knows he can get away with crap like this as his lackeys in the "news" media will cover for him. They have never reported the truth on this guy, they're too busy digging up dirt and innuendo on anyone who doesn't like their selected boy-king wannabe.
I sure would like to know the names of the CEOs/businesses that were present at this campaign event (ahem,,”roundtable”)
Obama is feeling the pressure. He IS feeling it.
Sad. Just sad.
Putin spanks him and his turrets gets worse.
Must be frustrating to not be in control of one’s faculties.
“extort”
Extortion is minor compared to the crimes that Obemba has committed before and since he has been in the white hut.
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