Posted on 10/09/2013 3:52:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
............Congressional Democrats are generally pleased that Reid has been calling the shots. They claim that Obama did not cut a good deal during the last debt-limit debate in 2011.
Now,Obama is front and center again. His press conference with reporters,which lasted more than an hour, was his first since the government shuttered last week.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin(Ill.)has criticized a short-term debt-limit increase as merely lurching to the next crisis.
“We’re not going to be in the situation where you’re lurching from crisis to crisis and putting the full faith and credit[of the government]at the hands of a Republican caucus that can’t get its act together,”a senior Senate Democratic aide told The Hill last month.
Another Democratic staffer,however,disagreed there is much daylight with the administration..........
Obama reiterated on Tuesday that he doesn’t believe he has the power to raise the debt limit,adding that litigation about invoking the 14thAmendment would hamper the economy.
Meanwhile,Reid plans to move a clean bill to raise the debt limit and Democrats think they will have enough votes to overcome a Republican filibuster.
Two Senate Republicans,Sens. Mark Kirk(Ill.)and Thad Cochran(Miss.),have told reporters they could support clean legislation to raise the debt limit.
A GOP aide clarified that Kirk would support a short-term debt-limit increase to give congressional leaders more time to negotiate. But he would not support the Democratic effort to push the debt ceiling beyond the 2014 election without significant spending reform,the aide added.
A handful of other Republicans remains undecided, including Sens. Susan Collins(Maine) Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.).
“I’m going to listen today and make a decision when I hear what people say,” Alexander said.
“I don’t know. It depends where, when and how, and I don’t know that we have any of that signed at this point in time,”Murkowski said.
Sen. John McCain(R-Ariz.) said on Fox News he will vote no,........
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Resist. Resist. Resist. Everyone can contribute.
A GOP aide clarified that Kirk would support a short-term debt-limit increase to give congressional leaders more time to negotiate. But he would not support the Democratic effort to push the debt ceiling beyond the 2014 election without significant spending reform,the aide added.
A handful of other Republicans remains undecided, including Sens. Susan Collins(Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.).
“I’m going to listen today and make a decision when I hear what people say,” Alexander said.
These people need to hear from WE The People!
Anybody got the contact info, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts of the above names?
“Where in the Constitution does it give the power to pass a budget that originates in the Senate?”
Constitution? CONSTITUTION??????!!!
Democrats don’ need no stinkin’ Constitution! It’s a rassis and outmoded document of White Power!!!/s
Reid doesn’t call the shots. He delivers the messages.
Obozo re raising the debt limit in 2006:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
It has been many years since the term “full faith and credit of the United States government first started to sound absurd to me.” When you have a debt that cannot be honestly repaid even if you were to do something sensible yet you continue to act as though you can BORROW your way out of debt you should stop referring to your “full faith and credit”. No one can count on the faith or credit of someone who is in a hole ten feet deep and thinks he can escape it by digging deeper. If he has sense enough to dig into the side of the hole, stand on the dirt he pulls down and continue digging a slanting trench toward the surface you may take him seriously.
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