We have exactly the government we deserve. You can not elect stupid ideologues and expect good public policy outcomes.

you’re old enough to vote? bahahahaha

Ha! Finally Barry agrees to something that has been publicly announced!

More than 60% of the public want cut, cap, balance, a bill that got bipartisan support in the House and that Harry refuses to bring up for a vote in the Senate, becuase he and the POTUS do NOT want a solution to this problem.

Tonight Obama will blame bush, blame boehner, blame everyone but himself and his party and the lamestreamers in the media will sigh, bat their eylashes at him, claim he is a genius and a god, and demand that the public jump on board becuase HE said jump.

Disgusting. disgraceful coverage from front to back on this whole process.

is it any wonder the public holds the media is extreme low regard?

Passing the buck. The administration has yet to produce a plan or anything beyond vague comments. Telling the legislative branch to do the work is typical at this point. The Obama White House needs to get enagged. Otherwise, what exactly will they run on in the next election?

You are dead on Tina, the public have spoken, they want Cut/Cap/Balance, they don’t want gimmicks and they don’t care about Obama’s reelection.  I just wish Obama would put the country before his own hide.  How do you get a good deal done when he’s only thinking about himself?

I agree, hope and change has turned into tax and spend.

“The fact is, though, that the administration has repeatedly asserted (without drawing a line in the sand) that the President would not sign a plan that doesn’t contain revenue enhancements”

Revenue enhancements? Why can’t liberals just call taxes “TAXES”??? Liberals always changing words when they sound sh*tty. The word liberal means your a complete p*ssy? Presto chango, we’re now Progressives!! Tax and Spend Democrats?? Not anymore. We’re now for “revenue enhancement.” Liberals shining up turds once again.

“The fact is, though, that the administration has repeatedly asserted (without drawing a line in the sand) that the President would not sign a plan that doesn’t contain revenue enhancements”

Revenue enhancements? Why can’t liberals just call taxes “TAXES”??? Liberals always changing words when they sound sh*tty. The word liberal means your a complete p*ssy? Presto chango, we’re now Progressives!! Tax and Spend Democrats?? Not anymore. We’re now for “revenue enhancement.” Liberals shining up turds once again.

“The fact is, though, that the administration has repeatedly asserted (without drawing a line in the sand) that the President would not sign a plan that doesn’t contain revenue enhancements”

Revenue enhancements? Why can’t liberals just call taxes “TAXES”??? Liberals always changing words when they sound sh*tty. The word liberal means your a complete p*ssy? Presto chango, we’re now Progressives!! Tax and Spend Democrats?? Not anymore. We’re now for “revenue enhancement.” Liberals shining up turds once again.

It always was Tax and Spend. 

I think that will be the president’s undoing in the end.  His constant tendency to disguise reality and attempts to manipulate the truth.  Revenue Enhancers are just Taxes and most of America knows that, Overseas Contingency Operation is a fancy word for War on Terror and The Party of No is another phrase for they are being Fiscally Responsible.  He is all smoke and mirrors, as another commenter put it, all hat and no cattle.

as long as it gets us past the next election…………unreal

I forgot to mention the Overseas Contingency Operation. Good catch. Add in that “Man-Made Disasters” for terrorist attacks. Smoke and mirrors is right.

Obama is playing politics with the economy – he doesn’t give a rats ass what happens; there is a solution with bipartisan support…..I’m surprised Tommy didn’t highlight the ccb bill (plan) that got bipartisan support in the house, got tabled by Harry in the Senate, and whose poll a major cable network SPIKED becuase the result was that 66% of thepopulation wants cut, cap, balance.

CNN spiked their own poll becuase hehimself doesn’t want a solution.

Playing presidential politics at this level will backfire on POTUS; once again, he will stand in the eye of the pulic and pass the buck but most of thepublic remembers what Obama said in the past (despite the fact that the media doesn’t EVER callhim on it).

Most of us remember Obama voting AGAINST raising the debt ceiling and saying this:

“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 U.S. Government can’t 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.”

This guy would sell out his own family if it made him look good politically. He sold out Wright and Ayers. If he thinks his family was worth political capital, I wouldn’t put it past him hanging them out to dry. He has no interest in the presidency, other than the perks of the job and him being a celebrity. He won’t quietly and respectfully get out of the spotlight like Bush did either. He and Clinton and Carter can all grandstand in front of the cameras together.

“Obama — a demagogue for an age of smooth surfaces; Huey Long with a better tailor — pretended Friday to wonder whether Republicans “can say yes to anything.” Well.
House Republicans said yes to “cut, cap and balance.” Senate Democrats, who have not produced a budget in more than 800 days, vowed to work all weekend debating this. But Friday they voted to table it, thereby ducking a straightforward vote on the only debt-reduction plan on paper, the only plan debated, the only plan to receive Democratic votes.
Obama’s last venture into public specificity was his February budget, which proposed accelerating the nation’s descent into debt. It was rejected by the Senate 97-0. ”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-stands-its-ground/2011/07/25/gIQAmvNsYI_story.html
   

As expected, the plan of dingy-harry includes over $1 TRILLION in phony cuts – i.e. “savings” from the winding down of the wars. It’s the usual BS that d-cRAT socialist throw at out and hope that some of it sticks. It won’t stick and it will only stink-up the process of real debt reduction.

dingy-harry is scared to death that he might lose the BIG GOVERNMENT taxpayer funding for “cowboy poetry” if the “right-wing extremists” win !!!!  America will win – and dingy-harry will lose.

They do? Says who exactly, and where are you getting the bipartisan support illusion from?

The last Press Conference the President conducted was a disaster.  I have never seen a President in my life time act this way…. I can’t imagine this one will be an improvement.
 
He only has 470 days left in office before he is voted out.

When is 13 a smaller number than 7?  When the senate is trying to hoodwink the American people, It will be easier for Boehner collect 7 democrat votes for his plan when the senate votes than it will be for Reid to collect the 7 republicans he needs, and there is no way in heck that the Dem plan would stand a chance in the House.   Harry’s… the Dem plan, as usual is total BS actually calls the withdrawl from the two wars as a cut of 1 trillion dollars to the budget, money that is already not going to be spent, then they look for some 500 billion in cuts to be named at a later date by an un-named commission…  Yea You Go Harry..  Mr. President, you are the leader of the free world, you treat us as if we are children, pre-schoolers at that, then you ask us to listen to you when you speak…  Do you really think the American people are this STUPID, are you still playing a game while the country approaches the edge?  I will watch you admonish the republicans this evening, demonize them for your own failings, laughing while laughing at your hubris.

For you dems out there do you really buy the crap these guys try and sell you?

No cuts to entitlements that’s like on thanksgiving getting the crust on the pie. This goes to show you democRATS only want to cut defense, but that gets nowhere nearer to balanced budget. What a waste of time. No personal responsible party can actually come up with a plan like this. Looks like smoke and mirrors all over again. Dodging real spending cuts are going to be of their own undoings if the nation.

This is truly funny; I mean really funny.

On Friday, Boehner  said they had a deal which included $800 billion in taxes and that the president then changed it to $1.2 trillion in taxes breaking the deal.

Now Reid and the president say they have a plan with ZERO, NADA, ZIP tax increases but raises the debt ceiling   $2.7  trillion. I think we just discovered why we have not had any agreement – Barry’s sole interest is to get the debt ceiling behind him so that it’s not a campaign issue in 2012!

Look- he gave up at least $800 billion in revenues to try to get his arse  re-elected!!

LMAO

Obama does nothing if it doesn’t benefit himself personally. And we all know about everyone he’s thrown under the bus after he could no longer extract any personal benefit from them.

Looks like Tommy got it wrong again. NO WAY Obama was backing the Reid bill. How incomplete of (a whatever you consider yourself) can you possibly be?
Whatever credibility you ever had (none in my mind) is vaporizing day by day.  

>> QUOTE from the article: “Reid’s plan is likely to receive ample criticism from both sides. As Jake Tapper notes, Reid’s plan relies on savings from drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, “a technique Republicans assail as gimmickry though the House GOP budget
offered by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., included the same savings.”

The only problem is Tapper’s assertion is rather DISINGENUOUS since it implies, through its wording, that the Ryan plan and the Reid plan ultimately achieve an EQUAL amount in savings — which they do NOT.

Ryan’s plan — love it or hate it — was all-encompassing and sweeping. It was designed to be a road map not only for year to come, but literally for FUTURE generations. And it was designed to mathematically eliminate the national debt entirely.

Reid, on the other hand, is merely tossing out a one-time, low-ball figure. To try and bury news headlines for the next 12 months or so. In short, while Ryan was thinking long term, Reid is just trying to buy Obama some time and some cover, so he can try and get his worthless sorry ass reelected.

Bottom line: as Charles Krauthammer jokingly noted (Monday, on Brett Baier’s show) the Reid plan is truly LAUGHABLE since it can only hit its savings total by tossing in things like “unspent money for the WWII invasion of Normandy.”

The Reid plan will cause a credit downgrade if Moody’s et al are going to honestly assess the US debt.  Credit agencies want a genuine plan to change the debt trajectory, this isn’t it. 

Everyone knows it, but will project surprise when it happens.