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It was the month of March and the final vote was 52-to-48, with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voting "no." The debt limit was increased by $781 billion.
From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
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In 2006, every Democrat in the Senate voted AGAINST raising the debt ceiling (Coralville Courier)
Imagine how Obama has evolved from that day in March 2006, especially now that he has raised the debt limit from $10 Trillion to $17 Trillion in 2013.
It was the month of March and the final vote was 52-to-48, with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voting "no." The debt limit was increased by $781 billion.
From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
Read more:
In 2006, every Democrat in the Senate voted AGAINST raising the debt ceiling (Coralville Courier)
Imagine how Obama has evolved from that day in March 2006, especially now that he has raised the debt limit from $10 Trillion to $17 Trillion in 2013.
No, there was a war in Iraq and they wanted starve the beast.But this is sooooooooo different now.
I'm sure someone will come up with a reason.
If it reductively comes down to "Because Barack is President" I trust you won't be surprised.
So sad to watch a whole party become self-described terrorists and hostage-takers like that
No, there was a war in Iraq and they wanted starve the beast.
Isn't Bernays propaganda wonderful. If enough people repeat a lie someone will begin to believe it.
No, there was a war in Iraq and they wanted starve the beast.
In 2006, President George W. Bush asked Congress to raise the debt limit by a smaller amount than President Obama is currently requesting. Four top Democrats were outraged with Bush’s request and called the action to be irresponsible. Instead of raising the debt limit, they insisted on spending cuts. Those Democrats were Senators Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer.
Seven years later, the same four Democratic Senators have written President Barack Obama a letter urging him to take ‘lawful steps’ to raise the debt ceiling himself. In the letter, they accuse Republicans of holding the nation’s economy hostage.
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Democrats Who Opposed Raising Debt Limit for Pres. Bush Urging Obama to Raise Debt Limit By
Of course the debt limit was nearly half of what it is today and there were two wars being conducted. One of which Obama has retreated from and one that Obama will soon retreat from.
It was the month of March and the final vote was 52-to-48, with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voting "no." The debt limit was increased by $781 billion.
From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:
The Great Bush Recession has caused a great shortfall in FIT and payroll taxes. That alone has added the debt.
Politicians from both parties in both halves of Congress vote against measures that they know are going to pass all the time, so that they can make political hay out of their resistance to what they know either will happen or must happen. There are a number of meaningless procedural votes that happen regularly in the House that members will at times vote against so that they can increase the number of times they vote against their own leadership and thus portray themselves as independent thinkers to the voters back home.
This is meaningless.
It was the month of March and the final vote was 52-to-48, with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voting "no." The debt limit was increased by $781 billion.
From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
Read more:
In 2006, every Democrat in the Senate voted AGAINST raising the debt ceiling (Coralville Courier)
Imagine how Obama has evolved from that day in March 2006, especially now that he has raised the debt limit from $10 Trillion to $17 Trillion in 2013.
It was the month of March and the final vote was 52-to-48, with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voting "no." The debt limit was increased by $781 billion.
From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
Read more:
In 2006, every Democrat in the Senate voted AGAINST raising the debt ceiling (Coralville Courier)
Imagine how Obama has evolved from that day in March 2006, especially now that he has raised the debt limit from $10 Trillion to $17 Trillion in 2013.
Only when it comes to Obama's words coming back to bite him on his rear.
OMG, like a bad penny, Wehrwolf is back.
Your OP is false. In 2006 the debt ceiling was raised. The Democrats did not hold the American economy hostage to get at Bush.
NEXT DISCREDITED RIGHTWING MEME!
Only when it comes to Obama's words coming back to bite him on his rear.
Like $17 TRILLION dollars?
Every Dem voted against it. Typical Liberal, ignore the facts and they will go away.
2. Obama is a big hypocrite because he voted against a debt-limit increase while Bush was president.
Yes, he did cast such a vote, but no, he’s not a hypocrite, not even a small one. The reason is simple. Democrats made no threats when they cast their votes. They knew they were going to lose and had no real intention of winning.
It was March 16, 2006, when Obama cast the fateful vote. But the Democrats’ votes, Obama’s included, were purely symbolic. The Republicans controlled the Senate at the time, 55-45. The increase in the debt limit, the fourth in George W. Bush’s tenure, passed, 52-48, with three Republicans voting with all the Democrats.
But the Democrats knew they were going to lose. They were in the minority; duh. They did not choose to filibuster, which they could have done and which would have meant the Republicans needed 60 votes. If they’d done so, that would have been hardball, and in that case, Obama would have been a participant in a real threat against American creditworthiness. Even then it wouldn’t have been the same as what the GOP is doing now, unless those 45 Democrats had demanded, oh, that Bush rescind his tax cuts or his Medicare Part D bill or some other signal legislative achievement.
But the Democrats did no such thing. They cast symbolic votes to force Republicans to vote to increase the debt limit. So Obama’s 2006 vote means nothing and bears no resemblance to what’s going on today.
Here Are Three Debt-Ceiling Lies You’ll Hear From the GOP This Week
Wow back in 2006 the Democrats did this and look what happened in 2008....they won the next election and took both houses of congress.
Sounds like a good game plan for the Republicans. Don't raise the debt ceiling, force obummer to scrap 20% of this heap of government, and operate with a balanced budget for a change.
OMG, like a bad penny, Wehrwolf is back.
Your OP is false. In 2006 the debt ceiling was raised. The Democrats did not hold the American economy hostage to get at Bush.
NEXT DISCREDITED RIGHTWING MEME!
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