Obama: Political sacrifices needed for debt deal (blah, blah, blah)

[cali]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said on Saturday political sacrifices will be needed by both Democrats and Republicans to break a budget impasse and avoid a looming debt default.

Under pressure to reduce America's 9.2 percent jobless rate, Obama used his weekly radio and Web address to vow to seek common ground with his Republican opponents and try to overcome serious disagreements on taxes and spending cuts that he says will improve the atmosphere for job creation.

He is to meet with top lawmakers from both parties on Sunday evening in what he says will be a session to perhaps begin the hard bargaining that will be necessary for a deal. Negotiators are working through the weekend.

"Both sides are going to have to step outside their comfort zones and make some political sacrifices," Obama said. "And we agree that we simply cannot afford to default on our national obligations for the first time in our history."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43695394/ns/politics-white_house/

[Fumesucker]

1. I don't give the slightest crap about political sacrifice..

I care very much about the economic sacrifices that people on the bottom of the economic ladder will have to make thanks to those "political sacrifices"..

[xchrom]

6. +1

[Enrique]

2. as long as he gets to keep his Obama 'brand" n/t

[KG]

3. brand of what? oatmeal?

[boston bean]

5. the mushy stuff. nt

[nevergiveup]

4. I seldom agree with you

but on this one I do. The president can not open his mouth today without the "political sacrifice" meme. I am more than a little tired of hearing it and I say this as one of his few supporters remaining on DU.

[boston bean]

7. This is not about political sacrifice. This is about human sacrifice, Obama!

It's not about them, it's about us. Get with the program Obama!

[Marr]

8. The debt ceiling "crisis" is phony, and any politician pretending otherwise

is just fearmongering. Big business would take a bigger hit than anyone if the threat were real, and financial armageddon was actually looming. Big business wants the debt ceiling raised. Does anyone actually believe the political establishment would give them the finger NOW, just to make a political point? The whole thing is absurd.

[TheKentuckian]

9. This guy is going to destroy liberal thinking for generations, if he is not opposed.

At this point, he is essentially spinning to protect the opposition and their ideology rather than going after them, being clear that their failed beliefs put into action brought us to this low pass, and that their toolbox is 100% counter-productive.

And no, I don't give a day old shit about winning their "convincible" voters. We won without them and will win without them, if we are to win at all.

Obama is either a sell out, a fool, or one of them none of the options is acceptable.

[Liberalynn]

10. Obama's definition of "Political Sacrafice."

The poor and the middle class give up everything, he and his rich
NeoCons best friends give up nothing and get everything they want.

Deal done. Case closed.

[Danger Mouse]

11. And any sacrifices will be on the backs of the poor and eldery, as usual.

We all know how the game works by now.

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Obama, chanelling Reagan

Phoney as a 3-legged duck, and as lame as one too.

[earthside]

13. Almost dopey.

This is the part that gets me:

Under pressure to reduce America's 9.2 percent jobless rate, Obama used his weekly radio and Web address to vow to seek common ground with his Republican opponents and try to overcome serious disagreements on taxes and spending cuts that he says will improve the atmosphere for job creation.

This President must be almost dopey if he thinks we're going to fall for this argument anymore.

From before the inauguration Barack Obama missed the opportunity to "improve the atmosphere for job creation" when he cast his lot with Larry Summers, Timmy Geithner and the Wall Street gamblers crowd.

It is probably just plain too late for Obama, but if he really wanted to change the 'atmosphere' he would order Eric Holder to begin action to break-up the mega-banks; he'd bring home almost all the troops and equipment from Iraq and Afghanistan; he'd fire (not just let him resign) Geithner; he'd begin immediate renegotiation of so-called "free trade" treaties; he'd begin the phase-in of tariffs to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. ... so on and so forth.

But Pres. Obama, the Repuglicans and the Tea Party are most likely going to sell-out what is left of working, middle America. My prediction is that there will not be a "grand bargain" and that Pat Buchanan is going to be maddeningly correct ... Obama will give-in to about $4 trillion in budget cuts with no increases in revenue for a House vote on raising the debt ceiling.

It is all so depressing.

[somone]

14. Why is he using the bully pulpit to advance a Republican agenda?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. "Both sides are going to have to step outside their comfort zones & make some political sacrifices"

That means getting the BIG bag of toast points at Cosco instead of the little ones from Williams-Sonoma.

Mr. Obama's "have-mores" will simply have to enjoy their caviar in a more frugal manner.



Now watch President Obama's drive.