Post by jgaffney on Apr 12, 2011 11:52:36 GMT -5
This is from the AP, via the SF Chron:
The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit — the same kind of increase he's now pressuring Congress to approve.
Obama "thinks it was a mistake," presidential spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. "He realizes now that raising the debt ceiling is so important to the health of this economy and the global economy that it is not a vote that, even when you are protesting an administration's policies, you can play around with."
So, Senator Obama, the freshman senator from Illinois, with barely any legislative experience under his belt, voted No on a debt ceiling revision when it was proposed in the Republican Congress. In order to prove his bona fides, the junior senator voted in a knee-jerk reaction to a Republican bill without considering the consequences of his vote. More likely, he was given permission to vote No by the Minority Leader, Harry Reid, in order to preserve Obama's progressive heritage.
Now, however, the Boy Who Would Be President is finding that it's a lot easier to throw hand grenades than it is to catch them. Now that he's the one asking for a debt ceiling revision, he has to cover his tracks from his previous inexperienced vote. And, millions of progressives throughout the land are willing to give him a pass.
What is that quote about the problem in America not being that Obama is President, but that millions of people believed that the freshman senator from Illinois could be president?
The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit — the same kind of increase he's now pressuring Congress to approve.
Obama "thinks it was a mistake," presidential spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. "He realizes now that raising the debt ceiling is so important to the health of this economy and the global economy that it is not a vote that, even when you are protesting an administration's policies, you can play around with."
So, Senator Obama, the freshman senator from Illinois, with barely any legislative experience under his belt, voted No on a debt ceiling revision when it was proposed in the Republican Congress. In order to prove his bona fides, the junior senator voted in a knee-jerk reaction to a Republican bill without considering the consequences of his vote. More likely, he was given permission to vote No by the Minority Leader, Harry Reid, in order to preserve Obama's progressive heritage.
Now, however, the Boy Who Would Be President is finding that it's a lot easier to throw hand grenades than it is to catch them. Now that he's the one asking for a debt ceiling revision, he has to cover his tracks from his previous inexperienced vote. And, millions of progressives throughout the land are willing to give him a pass.
What is that quote about the problem in America not being that Obama is President, but that millions of people believed that the freshman senator from Illinois could be president?