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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?”

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."
 


What the RepubliKlans are doing with this debt-ceiling — (increase the US credit card limit) kabuki theatre has nothing to do with the American people. What RepubliKlans want is to rid the country of the middle class because the middle class is politically active, unlike the poverty & near-poverty working class who don't have time to be politically active, because they are too busy figuring out how to buy their next carton of milk and bread.

Unknown to most Americans, and the televisions that 90% of Americans are watching as their only source of news will never tell them, is that this RepubliKlan political strategy over the debt ceiling is not new.

What's happening with this fake RepubliKlan bombast over the debt ceiling is a mirror image of what the RepubliKlans did to Jimmy Carter in 1979. They RepubliKlans refused to lift the debt ceiling so the economy would crash and everyone would blame the already beleaguered Jimmy Carter — (carter was being hammered by the Iranian hostage crisis) — and vote for the corporate hack Reagan. The country went into default for one day and cost the American people 220 million dollars plus the government had to add a 1/2% interest increase on government bonds just to get people to buy them again which cost America over time, $$$$$$$$$ billions. The debt ceiling at that time was one trillion dollars.

The RepubliKlans are attempting to do a repeat. Why is it so difficult for people to understand that all the RepubliKlans care about are corporations and the wealthy elite. Anything you hear Cantor, Boehner, McCONnel or any of the rest of the oligarchs slave bitches say is nothing but smoke and mirrors, and has nothing to do with the American middle class success. Allowing the middle class to succeed and grow is a threat to them— the wealthy elite, their corporate servants and their slave bitches politicos, like Cantor, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker etc. The agenda is reducing benefits, end collective bargaining, and reduce wages in America. The larger the scrambling working class becomes the more power the elite RepubliKlans have and the less power the middle class has.

If they can block the debt ceiling even for a couple days the RepubliKlans can almost guaranty another few million job losses that they will blame Obama for even though a huge chunk of the spending in Obamas first year was the BuShit budget. About 60% of the economy and jobs created are by having a well paid middle class spending money, another 20% is government spending, and the rest is business to business transactions. When RepubliKlans do things like wanting to increase the retirement age or pull back on college grant money it increases the number of people in the work force and lowers wages on the 60% who actually drive our economy. Lower wages means less robust economy, which means a larger working class, which means less people politically involved, which means more power to the business elite & oligarchs. Does racism factor into this equation and exacerbate the situation given the reality that under AmerKKKa’s “one drop rule” Barack Obama is considered to be a Black man? Absolutely!! Is the fact that death threats against President Obama are four hundred & fifty percent (450%) greater than any other US president since Abraham Lincoln due to racism? Absolutely!! Calling these realities “the-race-card” in a pejorative manner, exposes an intractable penchant to deny the sordid racism that is embedded in American history and has not been fully expunged even today; 2011.



 
My, My, My.........Pres. Obama on 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. … 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."

- Sen. Obama 2006
 
Lamarr said:
My, My, My.........Pres. Obama on 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. … 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."

- Sen. Obama 2006
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Then Senator Obama was absolutley correct in 2006. BuShit spent money like a druken sailor in a whore house. Two trillion dollar wars, tax spending for the rich -(the Bush Tax Cuts)-, and a prescription drug progam for seniors that was unpaid for; DEFICIT spending.

In fact BuShits prescription drug program for seniors doesn't allow the government to negotiate drug prices with the "Health Care Mafia".

This means the the Veterans Administration (VA) is buying pills from the "Health Care Mafia" on a negotiated basis for pennies per pill, meanwhile the BuShit prescription drug program for seniors is paying over a dollar per pill for the same medicine.

Watch the video below. Who ran up the national debt?????





Despite a massive propaganda campaign led by <s>FOX</s> FAKE News, Americans 2-1 understand that BuShit is responsible for the continuing awful economy for working men and women, not the top one-percent (1%) who are thriving.


Voters Blame Bush Over Obama 2-1 For Financial Mess -July 14_2011

 
So, the only time Gunner and Republicans like him see someone "throw out the race card" (a stupid, demeaning phrase that's used to pretend that racism doesn't exist) is when Democrats do it?
Not when "Conservative" commentators like Bryan Fischer do it when comparing Herman Cain to Barack Obama. Not when Glenn Beck does it to say Obama hates White people. Never then, only when Black Democrats/Liberals do it.
 
I was about to comment, but seems Gunner has enough he hasn't responded to above, already. Maybe later.
 
muckraker10021 said:

Then Senator Obama was absolutley correct in 2006. BuShit spent money like a druken sailor in a whore house. Two trillion dollar wars, tax spending for the rich -(the Bush Tax Cuts)-, and a prescription drug progam for seniors that was unpaid for; DEFICIT spending.

In fact BuShits prescription drug program for seniors doesn't allow the government to negotiate drug prices with the "Health Care Mafia".

Voters Blame Bush Over Obama 2-1 For Financial Mess -July 14_2011
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Quite honestly, I'm not trying to justify Bush's spending nor am I trying to assign blame for the financial debacle the country is in. (That's another thread) In 2006, I saw Sen. Obama taking a principled stance, which I applaud. It was the correct assessment, however, 5 years later, we now have 6 Wars, continued ZIRP (Zero-Interest-Rate Policies), and a Federal Reserve monetizing nearly 70% of the nation's debt in addition to the continued borrowing from China.

So, if then Sen. Obama was correct is making the above statement 5 years ago, Why is Sheila Jackson Lee implying racism when the same circumstances exists today? The ills of the Bush Admin have been grossly amplified for the reasons listed above
 
Lamarr said:
Quite honestly, I'm not trying to justify Bush's spending nor am I trying to assign blame for the financial debacle the country is in. (That's another thread) In 2006, I saw Sen. Obama taking a principled stance, which I applaud. It was the correct assessment, however, 5 years later, we now have 6 Wars, continued ZIRP (Zero-Interest-Rate Policies), and a Federal Reserve monetizing nearly 70% of the nation's debt in addition to the continued borrowing from China.

So, if then Sen. Obama was correct is making the above statement 5 years ago, Why is Sheila Jackson Lee implying racism when the same circumstances exists today? The ills of the Bush Admin have been grossly amplified for the reasons listed above
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First, it looks like your question was answered in that other thread:
Upgrade Dave said:
Did you even watch the video?

First, as the President said, they didn't raise taxes during the recession, they cut them...again.

Second, the recession is over and has been over for months, we're in the recovery stage. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">

Did the video say we don't raise taxes during recovery too?</span>
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Lamarr said:
Quite honestly, I'm not trying to justify Bush's spending nor am I trying to assign blame for the financial debacle the country is in. (That's another thread) In 2006, I saw Sen. Obama taking a principled stance, which I applaud. It was the correct assessment, however, 5 years later, we now have 6 Wars, continued ZIRP (Zero-Interest-Rate Policies), and a Federal Reserve monetizing nearly 70% of the nation's debt in addition to the continued borrowing from China.

So, if then Sen. Obama was correct is making the above statement 5 years ago, Why is Sheila Jackson Lee implying racism when the same circumstances exists today? The ills of the Bush Admin have been grossly amplified for the reasons listed above
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saw Sen. Obama taking a principled stance, which I applaud. It was the correct assessment, however, 5 years later, we now have 6 Wars, continued ZIRP (Zero-Interest-Rate Policies), and a Federal Reserve monetizing nearly 70% of the nation's debt in addition to the continued borrowing from China.
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Lammar, I think I understand what your issue is. Taking a principled stance is all well and good to make principled stance. But Obama is the president now and taking a principled stance is not in the best interest of the whole country. This is what got GW in trouble. Kowtowing to his political base was continued past the campaign and in to the presidency with disastrous results.
 
As usual, it's Lamarr with at the very least an attempted reasonable answer, whether I agree or not.
No Gunner. No Dmain Event.

Thanks for participating, L.
 
Upgrade Dave said:
So, the only time Gunner and Republicans like him see someone "throw out the race card" (a stupid, demeaning phrase that's used to pretend that racism doesn't exist) is when Democrats do it?
Not when "Conservative" commentators like Bryan Fischer do it when comparing Herman Cain to Barack Obama. Not when Glenn Beck does it to say Obama hates White people. Never then, only when Black Democrats/Liberals do it.
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Palin: Obama Did ‘Shuck and Jive’ On Libya



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Sarah Palin has used racially charged language to accuse “300-400″ people in the Obama administration of ignoring the first signs that the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was a pre-planned terror attack.

“President Obama’s shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end,” Palin writes in a Facebook post. The “shuck and jive” line also appears in the note’s title and a tweet that links to her statement.​

“Shuck and jive” is a racially loaded expression that has mostly disappeared from public discourse over the past half-century.

“She never ceases to amaze,” ABC News political analyst Nicolle Wallace, a former aide to Palin during the 2008 election, said today. “It’s entirely possible that she was ignorant about the racial implications of her comments, but at this point, I’m not sure what’s more incredible — her ignorance or her eagerness to offend.”

The phrase “originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards,” according to Urban Dictionary, a catalog of off-color and often racially and sexually insulting slang and terminology.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, used the term while campaigning for Hillary Clinton in 2008, saying Obama “can’t shuck and jive at a press conference… those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.”

When questioned about his choice of words, Cuomo told Politico he meant it “as a synonym for ‘bob and weave,’” a tactic used by evasive boxers.​

Palin aide Rebecca Mansour denied to ABC News that the words had any racial undertone, calling them only a “common phrase that means to manipulatively dodge an issue.” She also pointed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s use of the expression in 2011, when he used it in reference to his own behavior in the briefing room.

UPDATE: Palin responded to the criticism Wednesday night with another post to her Facebook page, writing at 10:17 P.M. EDT: “For the record, there was nothing remotely racist in my use of the phrase… I’ve been known to use the phrase most often when chastising my daughter Piper to stop procrastinating and do her homework.”
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/palin-obama-did-shuck-and-jive-on-libya/

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QueEx said:


Palin: Obama Did ‘Shuck and Jive’ On Libya




UPDATE: Palin responded to the criticism Wednesday night with another post to her Facebook page, writing at 10:17 P.M. EDT: “For the record, there was nothing remotely racist in my use of the phrase… I’ve been known to use the phrase most often when chastising my daughter Piper to stop procrastinating and do her homework.”
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/palin-obama-did-shuck-and-jive-on-libya/

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. . . learned that phrase from chastizing her daughter Piper? . . . well . . . at least she didn't say she learned it while shaking Todd to jive with:


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...airs-Glen-Rice-husbands-business-partner.html



 

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