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White House: ‘Nobody Forced Congress to Rack Up the Bills That it Incurred’
Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/8/2013 10:26:55 AM
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| White House Press Secretary Jay Carney placed the blame for the $16.4 trillion national debt on Congress, as he again asserted that President Barack Obama will not negotiate on raising the debt ceiling. “Nobody forced Congress to rack up the bills that it incurred,” Carney told reporters on Monday. “And it is an abdication of responsibility to say we’re going to let the country default and cause global economic calamity simply because we’re not getting what we want in terms of our ideological agenda.” The national debt has increased by $5 trillion since Obama took office in 2009.
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Comments: I´m so sick of the lies and corruption of the Democrats. The world is indeed upside down.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/8/2013 10:35:05 AM (No. 9104800)
Not to worry about obama´s swollen head/ego. He has a couple items in his lower body which are even larger!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cleanhousein2012, 1/8/2013 10:38:41 AM (No. 9104809)
Yet the repubs try to kick the football again and again.
Morons.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/8/2013 10:54:44 AM (No. 9104863)
Of course it´s not Obama´s fault for the massive spending. He´s only spending $1.2 trillion more than we collect in taxes because Congress allows him to do so. If someone had said "Whoa, BO, we don´t have the money for that" he would never have spent so much. But no one in the House or Senate, except the cold-hearted Republicans, objected to the $74 billion wasted on "green" energy or the $2.3 trillion for Obamacare. Hey, if Congress gives Obama a stack of blank checks, of course he´s going to use them. It´s your job to balance the checkbook, not his. Besides, you know how he despises Boehner, Cantor and the rest of those GOP cheap skates who prattle on about future generations.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
miceal, 1/8/2013 10:54:51 AM (No. 9104864)
I wonder if he remembers who passed all the spending bills beginning in 2007 that President Bush signed? Hummmmm? After the pubbies took back the House in 2010 I waited for the defunding of programs and agencies to begin...I´m still waiting.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
realrep, 1/8/2013 10:55:24 AM (No. 9104866)
Can the Congresscritters give a finite amount of money to the Executive branch?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
janjan, 1/8/2013 10:58:58 AM (No. 9104882)
Jay Carney is hilarious. In other words, Obama spent as fast as he could and as much as he could his first 3 years in office and now Congress is being blamed for passing this crap to begin with. I´m sure they will sell that line to the low information crowd. LDotters? Not so much.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
shalimar, 1/8/2013 11:00:22 AM (No. 9104889)
Amateurish.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/8/2013 11:08:41 AM (No. 9104934)
Three words:
Shut. Down. Government.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rmagnus, 1/8/2013 11:09:30 AM (No. 9104937)
This is why the White House won´t submit a budget and push its passage. Now he just blames Congress for the spending.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Reality, 1/8/2013 11:10:47 AM (No. 9104940)
The lying Carney is a perfect shill for a lying administration. The spending levels are based on the 2009-2010 levels rammed through in the middle of the night by the 0blamer/Reid?Pelosi cabal. They have remained at that level because the democrats led by 0blamer and Reid will not pass a budget,thus forcing spending at that baseline plus inflation on a continuing resolution. The result is ever increasing government. The only solution seems to be forcing a government shut down until a budget is passed.Taking the issue to the democrat courts is not the answer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DaveFromTampa, 1/8/2013 11:13:37 AM (No. 9104948)
This is an easy one. Pass a budget where revenues meet expenses and send it to the Senate saying "the President was right, we should not have been racking up bills we could not pay so starting now, we are no longer racking up any bills."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 1/8/2013 11:28:23 AM (No. 9104982)
So we´re going to just keep aiming the ship for the iceberg then?
Morons.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
sunsong, 1/8/2013 11:33:32 AM (No. 9105003)
The pubbies may be out manuvered again because they truly are the stupid party.
BUT - they can limit the damage by only rasing the debt limit $500 billion all the while insisting on real spending cuts now.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
M2, 1/8/2013 11:36:34 AM (No. 9105012)
The chutzpah is staggering. Where does he think the bills for his "stimulus" programs, failed green energy policies, lack of energy independence, entitlements and so on come from? Republicans?
What planet is he living on? Add that comment to his comment to Boehner that "there is no spending problem" and you´ve got some serious delusional crap going on in this man´s muddled brain.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/8/2013 12:00:33 PM (No. 9105068)
The GOP `Quick Response Team` must still be on Christmas break......
/s
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
grounded, 1/8/2013 12:23:45 PM (No. 9105118)
Basically to elaborate on poster #10´s remarks, the Trillion dollars of 2009 "stimulus" spending has been recycled each year through the absence of a federal budget and the reliance upon continuing resolutions each year to carry on federal spending. In essence this means that the recycled stimulus has failed to stimulate any damn thing for four years in a row. If spending was referenced to the pre-Obama baseline the annual deficit would be about 200 Billion dollars. It is truly staggeringly mindboggling that nobody, and I mean not a single soul that is an elected GOP officeholder in the US House or Senate, ever has made this point in arguing for spending sanity. It really isn´t an esoteric concept. Even the low-info types should be able to grasp it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/8/2013 12:54:31 PM (No. 9105197)
Really, so the strong arm Obie uses on them means nothing? Then why is it Obie won´t negotiate on anything, it´s always his way or the highway?
Jay, you are running a close second to Obie as king liar of the universe...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
saguni, 1/8/2013 2:58:51 PM (No. 9105485)
So, this debt limit fiasco and the uncontrolled spending is all the House Republicans fault, because they didn´t try harder on April 15, 2010 or April 15, 2011 or April 15, 2012 to make Dingy Harry Reid and the Senate pass the darned budget??
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chance_232, 1/8/2013 8:52:30 PM (No. 9106019)
So.......... he wont mind if Congress stops spending? /s/
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/9/2013 12:52:39 AM (No. 9106247)
The audacity of it all.
Will Congress stop refueling his jet ?
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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