(KUNA) -- U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama affirmed here Thursday that his meeting with the congressional leaders to discuss status efforts to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction was "very constructive".
Obama said in remarks following the meeting that "everybody reconfirmed the importance of completing our work and raising the debt limit ceiling so that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is not impaired".
He announced that he will reconvene congressional leaders here on Sunday "with the expectation that, at that point, the parties will at least know where each other's bottom lines are and will hopefully be in a position to then start engaging in the hard bargaining that's necessary to get a deal done".
"I want to emphasize that nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. And the parties are still far apart on a wide range of issues," he remarked.
He stressed that "everybody acknowledged that we have to get this done before the hard deadline of August 2nd to make sure that America does not default for the first time on its obligations".
"I want to thank all the leaders. I thought it was a very constructive meeting. And I will be seeing them back here on Sunday. A lot of work will be done between now and then," Obama remarked.
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". A lot of work will be done between now and then," Obama remarked."
Most of it in your head. Logic, reality, responsibility, courage, intestinal fortitude, morality, candor, commitment, and your Oath all must be implanted somehow into your middle school brain.
Since you are obviously not up to the job, you could try learning something for once instead of playing your "short" game.
Just remember this, any thing you want to do will fail and make all of us worse off in the long run so STFU and grow up.
#2
Limit Presidential, VP, cabinet, and congressional compensation to per diem and travel ONLY for the next 12 months, then see how fast they come up with a solution. Worthless bastids, the lot
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My guess, he adds an item or two from the Republican wish list and dares them to vote down the budget and tell their constituents they voted against those items. Something along those lines. If they shoot it down he can say he offered them things that were never on the table before, that's how serious he was, but they are just being difficult.
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Don't like this working on Sunday. Look what happened w/the Casey Anthony jury: can't tell me their vote wasn't just a big FU to wrap things up.
We have a shovel-ready economy and last minute marathon sessions w/ egomaniacs who just want to go home is not the way to a thoughtful, long range solution.
Here's my take out-year spending cuts that will never happen and immediate revenue increases that will be effective backdated 1/1/2011.
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He has maxed out fore credit cards, and now he wants a fifth.
#10
Obama will do what he does best "simply ignore the ceiling and borrow more money?
Some legal experts believe he could, citing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1868".
..what ever they want. How about no need to honor any piece of paper issued and purchased after exceeding the limit set by the house of the people? Who ever plays on that game might well find them without value when the next man takes the office.
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