Monday, June 27, 2011

Raising The Federal Debt Limit -- Lest We Forget -- Nothing To Do With The Bakken (At Least Directly)

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Lest we forget: in "another life," Barack Obama voted against raising the debt limit. He was right then; why has he changed his mind? One can argue this flip-flop is bigger than any of Senator Kerry's, and certainly more significant. Kerry was just one of 100 Senators; President Obama is, well, he is the president.

The House of Representatives voted recently to not support the President's "war" over Libya, but refused to vote to de-fund the "war." President Obama should take that lesson to heart: agree that he does not support raising the debt limit, but then ask the House to raise the debt limit after passing a resolution they do not favor doing so. Politics as usual. 
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  1. AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    Republicans (and Democrats) voted to raised the debt ceiling 7 times under Bush. Did they not know what they were voting for those 7 times? All of a sudden they're against it?

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  2. Bruce OksolJune 27, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    Interesting, isn't it? And they accuse Senator Kerry of flip-flopping.

    As noted, I think they should pass a non-binding resolution that they are on record that they won't raise the debt ceiling, and then vote to raise it.

    Or they could change the definition of a "debt" and a "ceiling." Lots of ways to solve this problem.

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