Obama: No more debt ceiling

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Obama: No more debt ceiling

By: Neil W. McCabe

1/1/2013 11:31 PM

Speaking Jan. 1 at the White House at 11:20 p.m., less than an hour after the House voted 257 to 167 to approve new tax hikes, President Barack Obama announced that he will assert the authority to raise the debt ceiling for spending approved by Congress.

“One last point I want to make,” said the president flanked by Vice-President Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose Capitol Hill summitry closed the deal on a “fiscal cliff” compromise. “I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills, they have already racked up through the laws they have passed.

This is a critical pivot for the president, who previously dismissed the idea floated among liberals that

[clearvision]

Hmmmm. This is pretty scary if true. I think the R's were counting on the debt ceiling to get the spending cuts they did not get here. Suckers.

[Valin]

Hmmmm. This is pretty scary if true. I think the R's were counting on the debt ceiling to get the spending cuts they did not get here. Suckers.

 

When this whole thing started I said when its over, taxes will go up on the rich, no spending cuts, no entitlement reform.

Damn I hate it when I'm right.