The Biggest Democrat Whoppers During All These Debt Talks

Whether you choose to howl with laughter or break down crying when you hear all these is your choice, but either response is appropriate:

• Democrats don’t want to vote for a bill they haven’t read.
• Divided government is what’s keeping us from reaching a budget deal. [Right. And the past two years…?]
• Democrats: ‘We support a balanced budget amendment’.
• Republicans are the ones who aren’t compromising. While Democrats are. [We’ve seen several times – everyone at the table was just about happy, and then Obama, at the last minute, demand more taxes. And the media paints it (of course) as Boehner’s fault.]
• The Democrats have any sort of actual plan. [They just haven’t passed it in the past two years.]
• Obama’s being a leader by not having a plan.
• Obama is the only adult in the room.
• Obama’s trying to compromise.
• A balanced budget is hard to pass.
• Social Security checks are being endangered by these negotiations.
• Reagan increased taxes.
• 80% of us want tax increases.
• The problem is revenue, not spending.
• Republicans, in not raising the debt ceiling, are doing something Democrats haven’t done.
• Bush is to blame for the debt, and Obama just inherited it.
• The problem is the debt ceiling, and not the debt. And not entitlements. And not the debt ratio. And not spending.
• Voting on another debt increase next year would be as bad as default. [After all, it might ruin Obama’s campaign.]
• It’s hard to figure out how to satisfy the Republicans in the current debate.
• It’s hard to figure out a budget that Republicans would pass in the House.
• This is a debate about race.
• Our children will lose their schools.
• Democrats aren’t playing politics with the current debate.
• The issue being fought over is default.
• The country will default if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.
• Obama’s not asking for a tax increase. He’s not looking to raise taxes. He hasn’t raised taxes.
• Republicans are proposing anything new.
• Spending is actually being cut.
• Paul Ryan’s budget is worse than Al-Qaeda.
• Increasing taxes is just as important as avoiding default.
• This conversation is at all serious.
• Some things, like Obamacare, must remain off the table in these debt negotiations.
• Republicans are holding the American economy hostage.
• The debt ceiling issue needs to be solved through 2012.

For additional fun, here’s some other Obama howlers:

• You shouldn’t raise taxes during a recession.
• We’ve got to get our fiscal house in order in Washington.
• We can’t simply cut our way to prosperity. [How would he know, it’s the one thing he hasn’t tried…]
• Personal financial advice: Don’ spend all your money.