Barack Obama says there will be no debt deal without Republican compromise

  Earlier today Barack Obama held a press conference and he declared that there would be no debt deal if the Republicans did not compromise in these negotiations. By compromise Barack Obama is demanding that tax increases be included as part of the deal, something the Republicans have thus far refused to cave in on. By taking on such a strong stance on taxes Barack Obama is engaged in the very same “my way or the highway” approach to the debt debates that he claims the Republicans of. (And of course there is the fact that Barack Obama in 2009, while touting his broken campaign promise to end the Bush tax cuts by extending them, admitted that taxes shouldn’t be raised during a recession.)

  I would remind Barack Obama that the American people spoke loudly and clearly last November, so what the Republicans are actually doing is taking the peoples’ side. The American people rejected Obamacare and the out of control spending and taxing in Washington and they responded with their votes in what Barack Obama himself describes as a “shellacking.” Yet Barack Obama and the Democrats ignored the will of the people and forced Obamacare on the people anyway, apparently oblivious to the will of the people. And he is at it again; what he calls “my way or the highway” politics is more accurately described as “the American peoples’ way or the highway,” yet it is becoming more and more obvious that Barack Obama doesn’t give a damn what the American people want or what the American people voted for last November. John Boehner is playing from a position of strength and he understands what the American people voted for last November:

The American people will not accept — and the House cannot pass — a bill that raises taxes on job creators

  Besides running on the promise of repealing Obamacare, the Republicans won re-election by promising to cut spending without raising taxes and the Republicans simply cannot give in on this issue or they will be relegated to obscurity by the American people.

  Barack Obama continued by saying that he would not vote for another temporary raising of the debt ceiling:

This is the United States of America. And, you know, we don’t manage our affairs in three-month increments

  This would be news to the Democrats because it was they who were too scared to pass a permanent budget before the election; it is the fault of the president’s own party that the United States has been operating on temporary budgets because they were derelict of duty and failed to pass a budget for the last fiscal year. Barack Obama must have forgotten about this little tidbit.

  He then went on to state in condescending fashion that “It’s irresponsible. They know better,” when asked what he thought of Republican claims that the debt ceiling needn’t be raised again. Again, this is interesting because he was singing a different tune when as a Senator he voted against raising the debt ceiling when President Bush was requesting it. Back then he claimed that the fact the Congress was debating raising the debt ceiling that it showed a lack of leadership and it would be irresponsible to raise the debt ceiling. Funny how his position has changed on this issue now that it is he who wants the debt ceiling raised, isn’t it?

  Barack Obama can’t seem to come to terms with his own positions, how does he expect to convince the Republicans to compromise when he doesn’t even know what he stands for? The one thing that Barack Obama is consistent in is his inconsistency.