Smackdown! Obama wants more cuts, Republicans' true motives exposed

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Just like he did when he smashed the Birther bullshit machine, the president has bitch-slapped the GOP and called the Teabagger's bluff .






President Obama has taken the lead on the deficit issue with a proposal that accomplishes far more to reduce the nation's budget deficit than the Republicans have been demanding.




It is tilted heavily toward spending cuts rather than tax increases, perhaps too much so, but it would both solve the immediate problem of the nation's debt limit and substantially address a long-term threat to American prosperity.




With his news conference today, President Obama laid out a sensible position. Raising the debt limit is generally a routine matter, but the fight it has inspired this time has instead provided an opportunity to do something meaningful about the nation's long-term problems.




The president said we should take it and that we should do so by adopting an approach that causes pain to both sides.




"I am prepared to take on significant heat from my party to get something done, and I expect the other side to do the same if they mean what they say that this is important," the president said.






And that now becomes the crucial question: Do Republicans mean what they've been saying about the deficit, or was that all politics?







http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-debt-talks-20110711,0,5474052.story







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Obama has the Teatards cornered.



The enemy of problem-solving in politics is ideological inflexibility.




That is the case President Obama made to the American people on Monday as ongoing debt and deficit talks try to stop the nation from default on August 2.




The president essentially called the bluff of conservatives who constantly call for action on the deficit but are making a habit of walking away from ambitious deals.




To strengthen his credibility as the "adult in the room," President Obama repeatedly asserted his willingness to stand up to liberal activist groups in pursuit of a grand bargain.




"I'm prepared to take on significant heat from my party to get something done," he said, "and I expect the other side should be willing to do the same thing if they mean what they say."




http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/11/avlon.debt.talks/
 
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