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   ConserveGov said, 4 months ago

   Actually he has no problem with spending generations of Americans into endless debt. Revenge.
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   Stipple said, 4 months ago

   “Heck, I quit three times just last year.”
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   Eryx said, 4 months ago

   http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/30/1174469/-The-national-debt-Republicans-built-that
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   cenright said, 4 months ago

   Read the constitution. The Pres can’t spend money that Congress hasn’t appropriated. The problem is Congress, not the Pres.
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   russell5419 said, 4 months ago

   Yeah, this moron has no problem spending money that isn’t his, time to impeach.
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   wmconelly said, 4 months ago

   ‘Cuse me, Robert. When out of money, with a good education, an excellent credit rating, and a bundle of creative ideas, each with enormous remunerative potential – STOPPING SPENDING – makes about as much sense as stopping eating. About. There are physical benefits to controlled fasting. I see none in aborting economic growth in the name of (current) Republican Economy Theory. Just sayin’…
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   Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

   The cartoon fails to show Boehnor, Pelosi, Reid, & McConnall passed out at the table in the corner. And none of them brought their wallets. There’s a banquet room full of money drunk legislators just outside the bar and many lobbyists filling glasses while glazed eyed congressmen and senators thank them and complain that their voters don’t understand them.
   I certainly don’t.
   The President could do more to direct the conversation. Gov. Huey Long used to hang out in the Louisiana House and glare at legislators as they debated bills he wanted. Many of our Presidents would invite legislators for dinner, drinks, and even weekends at Camp David in order to build relationships.
   The President isn’t the problem, but he’s not trying hard enough to be part of the solution. I’m ready for an “angry black man” to speak up on our behalf, but Samuel Jackson wouldn’t want the cut in pay.
   Lobbyists, special interest super pac donors, executives promising jobs to politicians after “their” interests are met, and other such corruptive influences are the real problem.
   Besides, the President prefers beer.
   Respectfully,
   and perhaps a bit too facetiously,
   C.
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   Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago

   CONgress spends the money, the prez merely approves it.
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   Gypsy8 said, 4 months ago

   Strange how so many are so quick to heap the blame on the President, as if it was him spending the money that is creating the deficit. The vast amount of the deficit is mandatory spending resulting from programs approved by a series of past Congresses, and military spending from wars started by previous administrations. The spending instigated by this President’s was mainly to save the nation from economic collapse, post 2008.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    O ‘drank’ more in his first 6 months than all presidents combined.
    Now let the ‘Bush’ and ‘Reagan’ comments begin. They have nothing to do with O’s lack of leading and unlimited spending.
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    DGF999 said, 4 months ago

    @Eryx

    The Daily KOS?!?!?!? LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
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    mikefive said, 4 months ago

    @Eryx

    Although dailykos.com may agree with your philosophy, it is probably not the best source you could use for information.
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    ossiningaling said, 4 months ago

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    Great post!
    But thanks also to cenright and Rockngolfer for pointing out that Congress authorizes the money to be spent, even if it is greater than the debt limit. Executive power is limited in how money can be spent outside the budget.
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    ARodney said, 4 months ago

    Because his cartoons can’t really be defended?
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    Omnius said, 4 months ago

    Obama isn’t the only one with a spending problem right now, let’s not forget how much taxpayer money was wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq and how the republicans want to jack up defense spending.
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