These Republicans that you say "compromised" by raising the debt limit are the same Republicans who have had no issue raising the debt limit many times, oh....except now I guess it is different somehow that the President doesn't have an (R) after his name?
Actually, some of those republicans are. Many of those in the house, the main hold up for this, are NEW Republicans that didn't vote to raise it while a Republican has been in power. Specifically, the newly elected "tea party" backed individuals who you and others lambast so much for "refusing to compromise" were not the ones that raised it under Bush.
Second, if you want to start playing that game then Obama shouldn't be allowed to even ASK for the Debt Limit to be increased for ANY reason since he himself equated it to a shuffle board game or kicking the can down the road and decried it as a failure of leadership to even do such a thing. So if you want to start pissing and moaning about past statements and actions as some kind of qualifier to disqualify ones ability to use it as a "compromise" or a point then be my guest but stop being a hypocrite about it and point out the fact that if we're living up to that standard there shouldn't even be a CONVERSATION about it because the guy who would need to sign the bill for it to become Law would have to VETO it because he voted against raising it and decried it as punishing the future children and a failure of leaderhsip.
So either be either apply your little end around "Uh Uh, that doesn't count because I say so" strategy equally or punt it, cause I ain't buying your hyper partisan cherry picking application.
The reality is, it isn't a "compromise" to say "We'll agree to raise the debt limit, but you have to do it our way and we will hold the American middle class, including the elderly hostage unless you agree to our demands. That's just a line of BS.
Actually, it absolutely is a compromise. They don't want to raise it, they want to simply lower the spending to a point wher we can pay the debt payments and not raise it. The Democrats want to cut spending a little bit over decades, raise taxes, and raise the limit. The Republicans have agreed to Raise the Debt Limit in exchange for more significant spending cuts. That is compromising.
Stop with these hsyterics of "THE OLD PEOPLE, THE OLD PEOPLE". You're like the geratric version of Mrs. Lovejoy screaming "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN".
Yes, Barack Obama is TECHNICALLY correct in saying we may not be able to send out SS checks. I'm also technically correct in saying that we may be destroyed this year by an Asteroid crashing into earth. Both are rather ludicrious however. The only reason seniors won't get their SS checks if the debt limit isn't raised is because Barack Obama decides to cut the spending through their checks rather than through other areas. We generate enough money to pay the debt limit and to pay SS for that month.
You can't agree to come to the table and then childishly refuse to talk unless you are the only ones allowed to propose the agenda. Sorry....that's not "compromise".
Kind of like saying "Look, you're going to raise the debt limit, you're going to raise taxes, if you don't agree to either then screw off"?
