Republicans Disrespect Obama on Debt Ceiling

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Obama did everything but spit in Prime Minister Netanyahu's face.
Our Green, Progressive Egotist in Chief has no respect for his office, our Constitutional Republic, truth or the rule of law. Obama is the center of his own universe - witness his relentless smug preening.....
Tragically, this facile phony has enough Obamatrons (Jamie's pic here) entranced to ensure his reelection.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 5:04PM June 02, 2011

The premise of Atlas Shrugged was that as you take more and more from the job creators and the producers of a society, they will say forget it, I quit, and you are left with the moocher class. This is in a smaller scale, but years ago in as a manufacturing engineer I was involved in setting up work terms in a factory. The workers had been paid by how much they produced as an individual, but on the teams the entire team would be paid equally by how much the team produced. Some genius had the theory that the workers who did not put forth effort would not let their fellow workers down and they would improve and productivity would increase. I have to admit, I bought into it in the beginning. To relate this to spreading the wealth around, in theory it sounds great. In reality I discovered the moochers are always going to be moochers, they did not improve, but guess what? The producers decided they were not going to carry the freeloaders, so they quit trying. This is what our economic idiot in chief will do our society as a whole. I got to see it first hand on a small scale. This went a long way to get me to understand human nature, which liberals cannot grasp.

kewaal of GA 4:23PM June 02, 2011

I am sorry but this totally useless economic idiot in chief has accomplished nothing but spending money like it is shooting out of his rear. We are broke; does any liberal have the intelligence to understand this? I am saying nothing I haven’t said before, but if you want to talk about disrespect read 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.
Is this a quote from one of the Republicans disrespecting Obama? No, it is our economic idiot in chief Obama in 2006 before he added trillions to our debt. Until liberals can realize the government does not produce it only takes, that a strong economy is not built by some know nothing in Washington telling me what I want to buy, while keeping companies from opening new factories in right to work states and that you are not going to power this country by Chinese made windmills and unicorn farts, and the government is always going to spend $1.50 for every $1,00 it steals from its residents, that trying to build high speed rail in most areas is as useful as throwing the money in a toilet and we vote this totally useless president out of office, we are doomed to keep going on our way to being a third world country.

kewaal of GA 4:04PM June 02, 2011

Speaker Boehner released a statement signed by more than 150 economists who argue that – to help address our job-crushing, spending-driven debt crisis – budget reforms and spending cuts should be larger than any increase in the debt limit. The statement eis signed by some of our country’s best economic minds, including two Nobel Prize winners (Robert Mundell, Vernon Smith); economists from schools such as Stanford (Michael Boskin, John F. Cogan, Eric A. Hanushek, David R. Henderson, James C. Miller III, John B. Taylor) and Carnegie-Mellon (Robert Dammon, Marvin Goodfriend, Allan Meltzer); a former U.S. Secretary of State (George P. Shultz); and two former directors of the Congressional Budget Office (Douglas Holtz-Eakin, June O’Neill).

P. 3:41PM June 02, 2011

What "sweet reason"??????????????
When I was a kid, I maxxed out my credit cards, but I had the sense to stop spending .....mostly because I HAD TO!
Jamie Stiehm agrees with her "hero" O'brother, to keep raising the debt ceiling! Is there no end to your absolutely dripping ignorance???
What a freeking stupid a-- fruit pie!!!

Havahavanna of CA 3:34PM June 02, 2011

"Nobel Prize laureates say his plan to abolish Medicare wreaks havoc on the middle class..." Which Nobel Prize laureates might that be?

P. 3:28PM June 02, 2011

Republicans now control more seats in the House then they have for 60 years. They were elected promising to restrain out of control spending. That is what they are trying to do. They realise that the debt ceiling will be raised. But the Democrats also know that won't happen without significant spending cuts. So a compromise will be reached just before the August deadline.
The current deficit is 1.65 trillion per year. The democrats propose 60-70 billion per year in tax hikes to fix this. Where are they getting the other 1.58 trillion from?
I would like to hear a proposed solution from the Democtrats. Jaime, how would you fix this problem?

Bob of TX 3:07PM June 02, 2011

I love reading "journalists" who have no experience in anything commenting on things they know nothing about. We've "invested" heavily in this country on social engineering for the last 80 years and look where we are today. Its about time the president and those who support this unsustainable do-good poorly conceived programs are talked to - down if necessary. And if "journalists" are mad about history repeating themselves then they just haven't looked closely enough at how historical social spending continues to drag this country down - that should make you mad.

Jim of NY 2:48PM June 02, 2011

First off respect needs to be earned.
Obummer has disrespected the elected Representatives of the American people over and over, and now you have the nerve to point fingers at the Republicans, really?
Your so called "investments" haven't gotten this country anywhere, just look at the numbers. Maybe if you had ever had a job or tried to run a business you would understand, but sitting at your desk, in the bubble, you truly show how much of a mental midget you truly are. The Progressive ideas are failures, period.
Freedom, Liberty, & Opportunity is what has made and will make America strong again, not the Big Brother Federal Government spending money they don't have or making new laws to TAKE MORE property from the American people.
What a twit! And to think you get paid to write this crap, only in America!

Larry of CA 2:40PM June 02, 2011

Really, Jamie? Judging from your column bio, none of the applies to you, so why the "we"?
I spent the last 18 months unemployed and refused to accept unemployment benefits. I spent that 18 months looking for a job and secured one last month, no thank to Obama and his administration. The number one reason that I was given for not being hired: Obama's handling of the economy. Now, either every employer I spoke with (1,100+) is wrong and you are right, or....well do the math Jamie. Oh, and also, the South, which you denigrate so harshly in your article, was the home for Democrats. Lincoln, as I recall, was a REPUBLICAN.

sopark182 of CO 2:23PM June 02, 2011