Say It Loud: "Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion"

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Say It Loud: "Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion"

by ThisIsMyTime

How about this for messaging and I think Think Progress nailed it on the money:

At the beginning of the Bush presidency, the United States debt limit was $5.95 trillion. Despite promises that he would pay off the debt in 10 years, Bush increased the debt to $9.815 trillion by the end of his term, with plenty of help from the four Republicans currently holding Congressional leadership positions: Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl. ThinkProgress compiled a breakdown of the five debt limit increases that took place during the Bush presidency and how the four Republican leaders voted:

June 2002: Congress approves a $450 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $6.4 trillion. McConnell, Boehner, and Cantor vote “yea”, Kyl votes “nay.”

May 2003: Congress approves a $900 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $7.384 trillion. All four approve.

November 2004: Congress approves an $800 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $8.1 trillion. All four approve.

March 2006: Congress approves a $781 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $8.965 trillion. All four approve.

September 2007: Congress approves an $850 billion increase, raising the debt limit to $9.815 trillion. All four approve.

Oh wait a minute, let's hear what the feckless House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday,

"A vote to increase the debt limit in this country is an existential question for a fiscal conservative," and "These votes aren't easy. ...What I don't think that the White House understands is how difficult it is for fiscal conservatives to say they're going to vote for a debt ceiling increase."

The audacity about these people to claim they are fiscally responsible in straight face and are no where to be found when President Obama is tightening the screws on them is very telling that the Republican Party is indeed a party of NO to anything President Obama proposes giving the Aug. 2 debt ceiling deadline a way to use it to blackmail the President into giving them more concession. However, giving "roughly three dollars worth of budget cuts for every dollar of new revenue" ain't the answer to fiscal responsibility and the President and Minority Leader Pelosi know it.

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[Oceansaway]

1. k & r...nt

[beac]

2. K&R. Now, if only Obama and the Dems would POINT THIS OUT! n/t

[State the Obvious]

3. And let's memorize and REPEAT this one......

Thank you Stephen Colbert......

" Come On! We already RAISED the debt ceiling under President Bush! That is sooooo 2002!..................2003.............2004.............2006.............2007........and TWICE....... in 2008! ":crazy:


EVERY Democrat in Congress has this information given to them as a gift, and yet.............. they refuse to use it!

I've repeated this quote to several Republican friends...... and they are speechless. (Possibly because it was so effortless to say.) Just remember to start at 2002, don't say 2005, and remember twice in 2008. It works.

[Historic NY]

4. Ah yes, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse......

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, & Moe.

[polmaven]

5. Well, yeah, but...

There was a real 'Murican, (read white, Republican, Texan,) in the oval then....! You 'spect other real 'Muricans to raise it for a dark skinned Kenyan Democrat??? 'Cmon! Sheesh!

[Hawaii Hiker]

6. Sure they did - that's because there wasn't an African American Democrat

in the White House at the time...

[MiniMe]

7. Add to that, when they were in power

[Tennessee Gal]

8. Say it loudly!

This is the proof of their hypocrisy.