My reaction to Obama's babble over again raising the debt ceiling

One of the many problems the empty suit in chief in the White House has is a history of lying. This man is lied so many times that if he told me it was daylight out I have to check for myself.  In fact the list of things he's lied about is much longer than the list the things he's told the truth about.

The excerpt from the speech below, for example, paints an entirely different picture of then Sen. Obama's views on raising the debt ceiling.

The problem that Obama has, is that his own words come back to haunt him. Was he lying then?  Or is he lying now?

At some point, we are going to have to default. The only questions are, when and under what circumstances?  Obama's efforts to keep us artificially afloat by printing paper is a recipe for disaster.

I for one, would just as soon do it now when perhaps we can actually control some of the impacts, as opposed to doing it later when we have no control and it's forced upon us.

Senator Barack Obama Explaining his 2006 Vote Against Raising the Debt Limit

By Andrew C. McCarthy

January 4, 2011 11:49 AM

From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:

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.

At the time, Senator Obama was urging Congress not to tolerate an increase that would bring the debt ceiling to $9 trillion. Under President Obama, the debt ceiling has been raised to $14.3 trillion. Even without counting most unfunded liabilities, the national debt is now calculated to be nearing $18 trillion. It increases about $4.22 billion per day (each citizen’s share of the total stands at roughly $55K). Thus, Democrats will soon demand that the debt ceiling be raised, lest the sky fall. When they do, they will be asking for a significant boost in a ceiling that is already 70 percent higher than the one Barack Obama said was “a sign of leadership failure” seven years ago.