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Thread #127472   Message #3194677
Posted By: Sawzaw
24-Jul-11 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
"What the Tea Old Party is doing now with the debt limit amounts to terrorism"

When it was Obama's time to vote for raising the debt limit in 2006, he voted no. Was he a terrorist for being against raising the debt limit?

He said "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

Sounds exactly like the Tea Party position to me.

In 2007 when the Democratically controlled Senate voted to increase the limit by $850 billion and in 2008 when the Democratically controlled Senate voted to increase the limit by $800 billion Obama did not vote against it. He did not vote at all. Too busy doing other things like making campaign promises like reducing the deficit.

Obama voted for TARP, which raised debt $700 billion and said it was "a necessary thing to do"