Then and Now: Senator Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006
Monday, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:21 AM PDT
President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and other prominent Democrats have been hypercritical of the Republicans’ handling of the debt ceiling debate. The left has spent the last week arguing that Republicans are terrorists and anarchists who are looking to hold the government hostage while collapsing the economy, but they fail to mention the stances they took on the debt ceiling just a few years ago.
IN PART:
"......Given the explosion of debt in the last few years, it is long past time for Washington to change course and adopt a new fiscal policy. After all, the future of our economy, the future of our nation, our children’s future, is at stake. And if the President and his [Democrat] allies believe that increasing our debt by another two, three, one trillion is the right thing to do, they should just be up front with it. They should explain why they think that more debt is good for our economy. They should explain why they think it’s fair to force our children and our grandchildren to finance our current lifestyle through higher taxes. Why it’s right to increase our nation’s dependence on foreign creditors. Maybe they can convince the public that they’re right, but I don’t think so. Look at the size of the debt. No one thinks it’s right. Most Americans know that increasing the debt is the last thing that we should be doing. After all, the baby boomers are about to retire. Under the circumstances, as almost any credible economist would tell you, we should be reducing the debt, not increasing the debt.....
HYPOCRITES:
Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. Therefore I intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.
So those must be the words of Republicans in Congress today, right? Nope. Those are actually the words of Sen. Reid and then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
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