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Obama, 11 a.m.: We won't default. Obama, 6 p.m.: We might default.
Examiner ^ | 07/22/11 | Byron York

Posted on 07/23/2011 11:29:47 AM PDT by freespirited

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To: freespirited

Little correction: only the House can initiate revenue hikes.


21 posted on 07/23/2011 12:29:40 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in a noisy avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the earth.)
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To: freespirited

I think he would hold up SS checks just for spite so he can have a chance to blame the pubs. Not servicing the debt would be a colassal blunder.


22 posted on 07/23/2011 12:34:21 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: freespirited

I think he would hold up SS checks just for spite so he can have a chance to blame the pubs. Not servicing the debt would be a colossal blunder.


23 posted on 07/23/2011 12:35:35 PM PDT by Always Independent
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24 posted on 07/23/2011 12:39:16 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: freespirited; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385; mkjessup; ..

Obama:”WE dont default on OUR nation’s debts”

Obama a little later :”REPUBLICANS are going to default on OUR nations’s debts”

You see the WE is for when Obama is taking credit for something, but is used sometimes in a negative context.

Get ANY debt limit increase bill to Obama’s desk and he will sign it. Republicans only need to break 15 Democrat Senators to do that. The debt limit will be increased, one side will cave. It’s a matter of understanding what winning means. Winning is not giving Obama what he originally demanded, then claiming it saved us from something even worse.


25 posted on 07/23/2011 12:58:31 PM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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To: freespirited

He had to wait for the market to close before dropping the ‘default’ word bomb.

By Monday, the Republicans will have suffered the slings and arrows of outrageious demagoguery from the media for three days and public opinion will be set against them (the WH hopes).


26 posted on 07/23/2011 1:15:32 PM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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...and Obama must know that having the president vent publicly about default will not help the situation.

Byron you're giving him waaaay too much credit.

27 posted on 07/23/2011 1:19:53 PM PDT by upchuck (No increase PERIOD! Hope & Change = Ball & Chain)
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To: freespirited

Mr. Obama, why don’t you submit a plan?


28 posted on 07/23/2011 1:23:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: freespirited

A default is not an economic event. It is a political event.


29 posted on 07/23/2011 1:29:00 PM PDT by upchuck (No increase PERIOD! Hope & Change = Ball & Chain)
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To: freespirited

We need to get this child out of the White House.


30 posted on 07/23/2011 1:41:35 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Is it just me or is Gumby really sitting in the Oval office?


31 posted on 07/23/2011 1:56:29 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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” A default is not an economic event. It is a political event.”

Wisdom works!


32 posted on 07/23/2011 3:34:45 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: sickoflibs

It is so obvious at this point, but not lost on many since and before he became POTUS, he, as well as so many in his party, are totally evil bastards.


33 posted on 07/23/2011 11:06:13 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: freespirited

Not increasing the debt has no bearing on if we default. We have plenty of income to meet our debt requirements. Obama and his fellow liberals in the Democrat party are simply the party of Tax & Spend and want to spend more than the country takes in as they use that money to buy votes.


34 posted on 07/24/2011 6:42:35 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: freespirited

If I were BoneHead, I would go before the cameras and say just one thing, “Mr. Obama, why are you so focused on taking this country into more debt?”


35 posted on 07/24/2011 6:44:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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