Congress Is Making It Difficult to Raise the Debt Limit Because They’re Racists

Oh no, she di’int…Oh yes, she did; she’s playing the Race Card™ :

“I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? And in my community, that is the question that we raise. In the minority community that is the question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?”

“I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one,” said Jackson Lee from the House floor.

Really Ms. Jackson-Lee, only this President? What planet were you living on between 2001 and 2008?

Why is Obama different? Let me try to answer in terms a progressive would understand. To begin I’d ask her to recall the heady days following the 2008 election, when President-elect Obama promised the American people he’d enact real entitlement reform. In fact, as our old pal Karl reminds us, at the 2009 “Fiscal Responsibility Summit” Obama said:

Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the next administration or the next generation.

We are paying the price for these deficits right now. In 2008 alone, we paid $250 billion in interest on our debt: One in every 10 taxpayer dollars. That is more than three times what we spend on education that year; more than seven times what we spent on V.A. health care.

So if we confront this crisis without also confronting the deficits that helped cause it, we risk sinking into another crisis down the road. As our interest payments rise, our obligations come due, confidence in our economy erodes and our children and our grandchildren are unable to pursue their dreams because they’re saddled with our debts.

That’s why today, I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. Now, this will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay, and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.

So get that? Obama promised to be a red-ink-eradicating, Deficit Hawk!; It was just one of the many hats our BRILLIANT!, POLYMATH! PRESIDENT with SUPERIOR TEMPERMENT! pledged to wear so that we could all be the ones we were waiting for. And I mean, really, that wasn’t the only time he posed as being morally offended by the notion of raising the debt ceiling either. So you see Ms. Jackson-Lee, as your crew often explains, it’s fundamentally because of the HYPOCRISY !

But no, the Congresswoman would have us believe that there has never been seditious speech in the manner of McConnell’s comment about his job being to make sure Mr. Obama was not re-elected; EVAR! Because truthful, open, talk about political intent is much, much worse than the Democrat’s, including Obama himself as he postured for his upcoming Presidential run, attempts to undermine our troops in the field during the surge in Iraq by continually proclaiming before any MBM outlet that had a camera running how “THE WAR IS LOST!“and “THE SURGE HAS FAILED!“; all despite the fact that at the time ”The Surge” had barely gotten underway. Sure Sheila, it’s far worse to hope your political opponent is defeated than for national level politicians to make reckless assertions that bolster the very enemies our warriors were engaging in the field by signaling that one US political party was willing to engineer losing a war in order to win an election.

Sure, they’re only doing it because Obama’s a black man…In fact they made the decision to do so, and hatched their eeeeeevolllll plan at a KKK meeting 2 weeks ago…Including the black Republicans…At that same Klan meeting…

I mean, it doesn’t have a thing to do with the national debt being within 10 percentage points of our current GDP…Or Moody’s and S&P’s threats to downgrade our ratings; perhaps regardless of whether a deal is made before August 2…And it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that, in a 2 and 1/2 years time span, Obama has added nearly as much to the national debt as Bush did in his entire 8 years in office…Or the voters overwhelmingly desiring a significant reduction of spending, as reflected in both polls and last November’s elections. Nope, nothing to do with reality, Ms. Lee, but everything to do with the “reality based” narrative folks like you choose to read into any political opposition you face…

Krauthammer was right when he said that the Race Card™ is the last refuge of a liberal scoundrel…

[Cross posted at POWIP]

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