Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black

[General of Darkness]

LMMFWAO, we got no arguement, so let's pull out the race card.

Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black


By Josiah Ryan - 07/15/11 03:02 PM ET
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.
"I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president,” said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? And in my community, that is the question that we raise. In the minority community that is question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?”

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Earlier in her speech, Jackson Lee said Obama has been targeted unlike any other president.

"I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one," said Jackson Lee from the House floor.


"Read between the lines," she continued. "What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?"
Jackson Lee concluded by saying that she hoped someone would step up and say that what appears obvious to her is not in fact true.


"I hope someone will say that what it appears to be is not in fact accurate," said Lee. "But historically it seems to be nothing more."


http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/171807-sheila-jackson-lee-suggests-congress-complicating-debt-ceiling-because-obama-is-black

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

People are sick of debt. Period.

[palani]

http://geekpolitics.com/obama-on-raising-the-debt-ceiling/

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.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

[palani]

So how has the situation with debt IMPROVED since 2006?

[mick silver]

just more shit out of the pig people mouths

[EE_]

Isn't this particular debt ceiling raise about the election?
The Democraps want a big one so they can sail througn the election while they piss the money around, and the Republicans want it to be small enough that it fucks up the democrap election and they get back in to spend like drunken sailors in a whore house.

[Book]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDGM9suuP3U

Where is the Secret Service? How can the Republicans do this to our President?

:o

[mamboni]

http://geekpolitics.com/obama-on-raising-the-debt-ceiling/

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.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

Am I a racist to point out that Obama, by virtue of his own words in the public record, is a supreme hypocrit?

[Shami-Amourae]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9-kl9enW0o

[osoab]

Dude is only half black according to his fake certificate of birth. So even if it is racist, its only 1/2 racist in reality.

[ximmy]

320Why they gotta pick on meh!

[Dogman]

320Why they gotta pick on meh!


http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=320&d=1310833860

[midnight rambler]

It's going to be fascinating to watch this play out. Paul Begala had the biggest shit eating grin on the Commie Nooz Nyetwork last nite, apparently savoring this showdown and fully expecting the Demoncraps to come out of it triumphant.

We are so fortunate to have front row seats to one of the most notable moments in history, ever - the fall of The Greatest Empire.

[mick silver]

but but i need more time to get more preps

[Sparky]

...
"I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one," said Jackson Lee from the House floor.
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She must mean other than the six white presidents who were shot, four of whom were killed, right?

[willie pete]

She must mean other than the six white presidents who were shot, four of whom were killed, right?

plus at least one President that an attempted shot was taken....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeaky_Fromm

[ximmy]

320Why they gotta pick on meh!


http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=320&d=1310833860

hey dogman... how do I make that pathetic little image large like you did... `;D thankie... ximmy

[Dogman]

hey dogman... how do I make that pathetic little image large like you did... `;D thankie... ximmy

[ i m g ]past link here[ / i m g ] Take the spaces out.

[mightymanx]

[ i m g ]past link here[ / i m g ] Take the spaces out.

Man you missed a golden opportunity.


I would have told her to stroke it gently and kiss the head.

[keehah]

Dude is only half black according to his fake certificate of birth. So even if it is racist, its only 1/2 racist in reality.
Then also Blacks should not criticise him because he is 1/2 white.

Only 1/2 White, 1/2 Black people could disrespect the President then.

Is there even a current 1/2 White, 1/2 Black Republican?

Would The Rock run as a Republican?

[Joe King]

Man you missed a golden opportunity.


I would have told her to stroke it gently and kiss the head.

Hey, whatever works for ya! lol