WATCH: Obama Gets Spanked On Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy

Obama the emperor gets torched.  All that is missing is a scepter, a crown and a burned robe trimmed in ermine.

$20 trillion here we come.

'You yourself voted against the debt ceiling.'

Major Garrett calls out Obama at his most recent White House press conference.

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MAJOR GARRETT, CBS NEWS:  As you well know, sir, finding votes for the debt ceiling can sometimes be complicated.  You yourself as a member of the Senate voted against a debt ceiling increase.  And in previous aspects of American history: President Reagan in 1985, President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, President Clinton in 1997, all signed deficit reduction deals that were contingent upon or in the context of in raising the debt ceiling.  You yourself four times have done that; three times those were related to deficit reduction or budget maneuvers.

What Chuck and I and I think many people are curious about is this new adamant desire on your part not to negotiate when that seems to conflict with the entire history in the modern era of American presidents in the debt ceiling and your own history on the debt ceiling.  And doesn’t that suggest that we are going to go into a default situation, because no one is talking to each other about how to resolve this?

More from the press conference:

Obama: 'The United States Is Not A Deadbeat Nation'

h/t: Real Clear Politics

Comments

[DailyBail]

Barack Obama -- our imperial emperor in chief

By Cal Thomas

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/17/barack-obama-our-imperial-emperor-in-chief/#ixzz2KQcP7YjW

The president dissembled, talking again (he repeated this at least three times by my count) about how Congress had authorized all the spending and how we must now “pay our bills.” But as Garrett noted, the president had a different view of the debt ceiling when he was an Illinois senator and voted against raising it. In 2006, he said, “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.” Except when he’s the leader, then it’s someone else’s failure.

[chiller]

About time someone in the media threw our minor league POTUS a fast ball!...a swing and a miss....

[Josie]

Obama has no f'n idea what he is doing. Simply in over his head. Cannot clearly state what he thinks is the correct policy. He makes no sense when answering. Ya think he calls Krugman every day and asks what his Keynesian mantra should be that day???