Tuesday - April 10, 2012

Here We Go Again

Holy cats, the audacity of this pretender is just off the meter.

And for the millionth time, he’s using the media to try and scare the public again, and you know what that means: smoke and mirrors; he’s got something sneaky behind his back he’s going to try to push through when the attention is elsewhere.

As the clock ticks on raising the nation’s debt ceiling, President Obama said Tuesday he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans do not come together and reach an agreement to reduce the deficit.

In an interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley, Obama talked about the repercussions of not getting a deal by the August 2nd deadline. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd, if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”

The Treasury Department has warned that if Congress fails to raise the nation’s $14.29 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2, the US will default on its debt for the first time in its history.

The White House says it’s pretty clear the effect will be significant and would entail a “Sophie’s Choice situation, where you have to decide what bills you can pay.” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “We can’t guarantee if there were a default any specific bill will be paid...That’s why the leaders have been clear that we will vote to have the United States fulfill its obligations. And the president feels strongly that that will happen.”

But as Democrats and Republicans turn up the heat against each other, the terms of a big deal appear to be further out of reach.

Carney suggested Congress is to blame for pushing these things up to the very last minute. Comparing the current stalemate to the Continuing Resolution debate which dragged on for months, Carney said this situation is even more inconvenient because if Congress does not act in time, it “could have an effect on markets that...would be damaging to the economy.”

Didn’t the assclown in chief just play this trump a few months ago? Got the media all whipped up, got the old folks all scared (you would think they would be used to it by now, what with the evil Republicans always trying to kill them, starve them, and throw them out in the snow with their evil plans), got everyone riled up for a couple days ... until the Social Security guy came out and said how this was total nonsense, it’s not the President’s job to make such guarantees in the first place, and that the money would continue to flow even if other parts of the government had to shut down for a bit. I guess DC figures that all the seniors have been seriously whacked with Al’s Hammers, and have no recent memory ability. WTF, we know the MSM doesn’t. Not for him. But that’s deliberate.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/10/2012 at 11:45 AM   
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