I watched the speech. It was horrifying in its banality, in its obtuseness. The man is stuck on stupid.
He complained about “a debate where the threat of default was used as a bargaining chip.” The one and only politician who did that, repeatedly, was Barack Hussein Obama. He threatened default, and the collapse of supposedly rock-solid entitlements like Social Security, on a regular basis. He didn’t admit he’d been lying about the threat of default until his last press conference before Congress made a debt-ceiling deal without him.
Let’s revisit those remarks, shall we? President Barack Obama, speaking on July 29, 2011: “If we don’t come to an agreement, we could lose our country’s AAA credit rating… not because we didn’t have the capacity to pay our bills – we do – but because we didn’t have a AAA political system to match.” But now he’s back to whining about “default” being used as a bargaining chip by people other than himself.
The President tried to breathe more life into the moribund talking point that his economic failures are the result of global events beyond his control, such as turmoil in the Middle East and the tsunami in Japan.
“Our challenge is the need to tackle our deficits in the long term,” said the man who began the debt-ceiling debate by demanding trillions in new debt immediately, with absolutely no conditions. You’d almost think his Party wasn’t the gang that tabled the only realistic deficit-destroying proposal, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, without a proper vote.
“Last week, we reached an agreement that will make historic cuts to defense and domestic spending, but there’s not much further we can cut in either of those categories,” claimed Barack the Mad. You read that right. The man who blew government spending into the stratosphere thinks “there’s not much further we can cut” after a deal that merely slows the rate of spending increase by $2.4 trillion over a decade. We haven’t actually “cut” anything yet.
Read the whole thing.
No comments:
Post a Comment