[Salvan]

Even Obama! He was against it before he was for it

"The fact that we're here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means '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. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit." - Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill

I'm not going to let this slide. Obama voted against the debt limit in a symbolic gesture, we were wasting trillions. Obama thought raising the debt ceiling to pay for more of Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and his wars was stupid, and he wanted to be on the record. Was it political gamesmanship? Yes, but it was consequence free because it wasn't an organized Democratic effort. It was just Obama, being Obama.

Why is it when Republicans are blowing our money on nonsense, Obama is the bad guy for a symbolic vote to not raise the debt ceiling, even though it was going to be raised anyway, but when we need money to make sure we don't have to slash our budget in a recession and kill millions of jobs, Republicans are the heros for holding our credit and our economy hostage for political gain? Do you even remember how many days we were from hitting the debt ceiling?

You conservatives are a complete joke. No one is buying your new found concern over our deficit. Not after the hole you dug for us. All of you voted for Bush, and you fuckin know it. We will never reduce the deficit with high unemployment. NEVER. Jobs first, deficits will come down after that and we can start cutting spending and raising taxes. That is how it is done. You save in boom times, so you have cash when the shit hits the fan. Idiot cowboy and co, did the opposite. We could have paid for 3 stimulus bills with the money lost through Bush's tax cuts.