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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
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