The President has been playing a central role in congressional negotiations over the recent deficit talks; the current plan being authored by 'the gang of 6' is being modeled after the Simpson-Bowles plan that was commissioned by the white house. It seems this claim that the president is doing nothing or failing to play a leadership role is inaccurate.
At the end of the day though Congress is the one that has the power of the purse, it is their job to create budgets and allocate govt funds.
You are a complete
fucking moonbat moron. Here are some facts for you:
Obama...
• Ignored the debt problem for two years by kicking the can to a commission.
• Promptly ignored the commission’s December 2010 report.
• Delivered a State of the Union address in January that didn’t even mention the word “debt” until 35 minutes in.
• Delivered in February a budget so embarrassing — it actually increased the deficit — that the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected it 97 to 0.
• Took a budget mulligan with his April 13 debt-plan speech. Asked in Congress how this new “budget framework” would affect the actual federal budget, Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf replied with a devastating “We don’t estimate speeches.” You can’t assign numbers to air.
Obama has run disastrous annual deficits of around $1.5 trillion while insisting for months on a “clean” debt-ceiling increase, i.e., with no budget cuts at all. Yet suddenly he now rises to champion major long-term debt reduction, scorning any suggestions of a short-term debt-limit deal as can-kicking.
A clever strategy it is: Do nothing (see above); invite the Republicans to propose real debt reduction first; and when they do — voting for the Ryan budget and its now infamous and courageous Medicare reform — demagogue them to death.
Yeah, you have a real leader there.
Holy
shit. You and all the other lollypop
sucking Obama
ass kissers on this site are dumber than a box of
fucking rocks. I can't wait until you all grow up, get real jobs and start paying those taxes you think should be raised on everyone else.