Debt Ceiling Vote?

SS109 wrote:

Kate wrote: President Obama should just switch parties and become a Republican. Then the House would vote for raising the debt limit. After all, during the Bush presidency, they voted seven times to raise the debt ceiling.

When Barack Obama was a Senator from Illinois, he voted against increasing the debt ceiling.

So only when he controls the checkbook, does he support an increase in the debt load?

So you do see how it works! Both parties obstruct the other, but it's amusing to make fun of them nonetheless.

BTW - Obama doesn't control the checkbook. Congress does.

He does have ultimate signature approval or veto power.

True.

That is of course if congress puts something on his desk to sign.... until then, it's in their court.

Obama can spend if he wants too, already 750 million to bomb the Libyan infrastructure. Does this mean if we win in Libya we get to rebuild it too?

towermonkey wrote:

The Pentagon rejects Anderson's estimate. Still his claims raise questions about how much the US footprint in Afghanistan really costs – especially something like air conditioning.

First of all, the number's made up. 20 Billion was used with no substantiation. Second of all, I don't begrudge air conditioning for our troops, if they were actually getting it. For the most part, they aren't. Those troops need to come home as well as the myriad of troops we have on bases all over the world playing the world's police force. Maybe then we wouldn't have to borrow more money...

OF COURSE the pentagon denies this. They don't want us to know HOW the money is being used because if we started to learn then we WOULD get pissed off enough to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

This war is in one THE MOST REMOTE areas of the world. Just getting a gallon of fuel costs thousands of dollars by the time it gets to where it is needed. this is INSANE

Well Obama just snubbed the Republican when they offered to meet with him to discuss this. He said it was ...... "not a conversation worth having."

Guess the only place he will meet with them is on the golf course.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/ ... T920110630

The Viking wrote: Well Obama just snubbed the Republican when they offered to meet with him to discuss this. He said it was ...... "not a conversation worth having."

Guess the only place he will meet with them is on the golf course.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/ ... T920110630

Is there more to this article than the single paragraph? Seems a bit skimpy on the details. Here's the entire "report."

(Reuters) - The White House effectively turned down an invitation by Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell for President Barack Obama to visit his members on Capitol Hill on Thursday to discuss raising the debt limit.

White House press secretary Jay Carney, while not directly saying the invitation had been rejected, said Obama did not need to hear Republicans tell him what they would not support.

That, Carney said, was "not a conversation worth having."

(Reporting by Alister Bull)

Were they asking him to come to the hill? Did they have details about the debt limit? What are the circumstances?

Some of the comments left by readers after the "article" are longer than the article itself. I did a google search and it's pretty much a bunch of blogs all referencing the Reuters "article."