He is the pimp and the Gop is his whore.

Barky refuses to lead again. This man is useless.

Is ´Butthead´ one word or two?

He knows the GOP will cave (they´ve done it before, they´ll do it again.)

i do not think the repubs will cave on the debt ceiling...............obama can mouth bull during his press conf......that doesnt make it so.......if he wants to cut the spending.....really cut it...START WITH WELFARE...................and do a budget

wait for boner to cry somemore and whine its not fair. a pox on all of them

Let mr Obamaham Lincoln run his mouth. He will be trounced at the ballot box in 2014 when melanin is not on the ballot. Remember how popular this guy was when he started spouting off about the Cambridge Police Department?

It is true--look it up. Half of Americans have gagged when spoken to by their presidents. Since Adams. Why should now be any different?

Without a bulldog press Obama can work his will unchallenged.

The low information voters (morons) don´t have a clue and happily dance to his merry tune.

This is the power the Dems hold.

That said, the GOP should publically offer to raise the ceiling in exchange for Keystone approval. Make Barry twist in the wind.

So where is Mitch McConnell or Crybaby Boehner? They should be out there shouting everything that this man is lying about. These two are totally useless.

Obama the Uniter.

/heavy sarc off/

He said we are no a deadbeat nation. However, that´s exactly what we are. Those who do not make enough to pay their own bills have learned they can vote money out of the pockets of the productive, and they are doing it.

I watched him today. I usually can´t stand to listen to him, but today I heard something different in his trying to repeat the memorized answer he was given to blather.

He sounded scared, really scared.

It was like being caught doing something wrong by his mother and he sounded like a scared little kid trying to lie his way out of a situation.

For the millionth time, the Republicans do not have the power to do much. Boehner is incorrectly spelled by some moronns on this site and if they watched, read and listened they would have heard John and Mitch out in front. Posters denigrating our side are a big part of the problem.

When his deadbeat supporters pay higher taxes, watch the riots begin.

This arrogant poseur can´t even do a budget in 4 years & has the gall to criticize Republicans. Pravda can´t cover his incompetence forever.

Disgusting...What an embarrassment of a POTUS, to threaten seniors & military families. Reducing dept budgets by 5% is not an option?

#14, he didn´t sound scared at all to me. If anything, he sounded comfortably arrogant, condescending and lecturing to the unwashed like the fifth-rate university whatever he was. I half-expected him to declare that Executive Orders would be used if Congress would not do his bidding and to fold his arms like Mussolini. (He will anyway). Welcome to Fascist America.

they will give in they are cowards. What are you afraid of, congress, represent the voters who put you there.

I don´t see the GOP getting anything out of the debt ceiling talks. Evil people in the WH can cause tremendous pain on the public and blame it on the Republicans. With Lew at Treasury doing Obama´s bidding on what gets funded we could see real harm inflicted beyond stopping social security checks.

I´m with number 11. Where are the Republicans, what is their proposal, why is it better than Obama´s? We can´t beat somebody like Obama if our guys are cowering under their desks rather than engaging in the battle of ideas.

Arrogant little pustule, isn´t he!

Make no mistake...Zero´s mission is to crash the economy, to benefit his funders like Soros (and others), strip Americans of their rights in a New Fascist State, and foment the Islamic Caliphate (the end of Israel and much of Europe).

The GOP need to stop worrying about public opinion and get off their asses to do the job they were sent to the congress to do.

Guess the name-calling of Republicans is down to a science, eh? It´s a shame that some don´t seem to have as much disgust for the criminal enterprise known as the obama-administration and his minions in the "msm", as they do while constantly denigrating the Republicans in Congress. No wonder the GOP can´t seem to win an argument. They are surrounded by cheap-shotters on all sides, including some "conservatives". The "msm", the demonrats, obama and every "news" network with the possible exception of (at times) FNC, are on constant attack. That is the same attitude that got the most anti-American president in the history of this country RE-Elected! Pathetic.

OK--I´ve not read this whole thing, but the headline makes no sense to me. Let´s see:
The GOP is supposedly holding "Not Crashing the Economy" hostage. Zero is refusing to "pay" the ransom they supposedly want...? So, he´s saying he has the power to keep the economy from crashing, but he´s not going to do it?

Puh-leeze. This article *should* have begun w/ an ´opening sentence´ gleaned from another of today´s news articles...

"“Late Friday evening, Deputy Director Zients confirmed that for the fourth time in five years, the president’s budget will not be submitted in compliance with the law,”

So to recap, Obama demands ´no ransom!´ or he´ll not obey law?

The only surprise here is that Obama hasn´t forcibly taken over David Letterman´s job so he can posture nightly on national television...

I´ve asked before--why was Soros kicked out of Britain and how do they keep him out? We need to know.

Obama has maxxed out his gov´t credit card.
He wants to spend even more, so he wants the bank (us) to raise his credit limit so that he can spend even more..NO.
I am so sick of his lies.

"We are not a deadbeat nation," Obama said as, in the background, cameras caught a White House limousine being loaded on a flatbed truck owned by "D.C. Repo Specialists."

The real hostages are the few popular government programs that he listed. He is signalling that he will cut the muscle - the military pay etc and leave the fat - welfare programs, food stamps acorn etc - untouched when there is not enough money to go around. He is exactly like any municipal politician who makes the first cuts to fire and police protection so as to leave the useless pencil pushers untouched. I say lets have the showdown with this grifter now. Pass a budget showing where real cuts can be made to live within our means and then refuse to pass any increase in the debt ceiling. Let all the howling die down in a month or so then perhaps there will be some negotiations and less demagoguery.

I´m with #15 and #25 in being fed up with all the anti-Republican trash talk from self-described conservatives. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Many Republican officeholders are trying to resist the Marxist takeover. But Obama enjoys the long legacy of gradual change in our government which has resulted in an imperial presidency, with an unequal share of power. All it takes is for an evil opportunist with "audacity" to exploit the situation. We conservatives need to stand together to fight his takeover, not to undermine any and all efforts by our representatives to resist him.

#15 based on the posts at this site, most don´t agree with you. I have been listening, reading and watching and I see are two useless jerks....BOEHNER and MCCONNELL. I think it is time to replace Mitch with Cruz and Boehner with West.

BO says Va and SSI payments may not be paid if the debt limit is not raised! I bet the department of energy, department of education, department of commerce, pensions for gov retirees, and the EPA are all are all fully paid! All BO´s cronies!

Don´t give him red cent. let em starve.

Perhaps the posters criticizing the steers would not be so critical if the steers had won a single bout with the moron.

Why are they not bringing impeachment proceedings? Why are they not proposing any legislation to stop the guy? Why are they not cutting off funding to Zerocare? Many more questions could be asked. They are not weak because they appear to be weak. They really are weak and, in my opinion, just want to keep their cushy jobs.

He never includes himself or his cronies into the mix. There´s no worry that their pay checks will not be funded. Congress controls the purse strings - so cut out all the vacations this do nothing president and his family take several times a year. That alone would reduce the deficit!!!

Comrade ObaMao will happily collect that ransom himself!

Says the man trying to shut down 5% of US power while spending 10s of billions for expensive energy that can not compete. I personally would raise the debt ceiling $4 billion for every week he suspends ALL environmental rules. For a year delay of rule he has added, I would give him 108 billion. The economic growth would easily recover this amount. The GOP should throw this out and point out that this is more than he got from the ending the payroll tax holiday and tax on the rich combined.

That is part of the problem with Comrade O, he is too well protected, too shielded too comfortable. It is way past time to lob a grenade of reality into his small little fantasy world. One that isn´t just a flash bang...they all need to be shook up.

So it is just terrible if the GOP scares people over raising the debt ceiling but it´s fine for Obama to scare people over who won´t get checks if the GOP doesn´t do what Obama wants???

Not interested in being lectured by the same people who told me that Mitt was king.

I want to hear some Republican voice refuting Duh Wun´s claim that all of our debt was "created by Congress" and they have to pay what they spent.

Who created all the Czars and their offices and their staffs...Congress did not.

What is this guy blabbering about...?