Sweet Pea?

Saying now is the time to Pull off the band-aid and Eat our peas, President Obama is chiding House Republicans to raise the debt ceiling.

When he was in CONgress, Obama excused his no vote as a new senator making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country when he offered the March 2006 quote (pictured).

Harry Reid admitted it was a political maneuver when he said --

"How can they explain that they think its fair to force our children, our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes...that's what it'll have to be. Why is it right to increase our nation's dependents on foreign creditors?"

Obama could have been talking about himself, and the scientific community is united in that fact, when he said -- America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Obama had two years of complete legislative control of this country - including months of a filibuster-proof Senate - to get whatever tax increases he wanted on the books.

What did Dummycrats do?

They never produced a budget, but gave this country the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

The largest tax increase since 1993, and signed by President Obama, adding up to some $438 billion in new revenue over 10 years. But even that is understated because by 2019 the annual revenue increase is nearly $90 billion, or $900 billion in the 10 years after that.

I'll acquiesce to Obama again -- Americans deserve better

Where's the press on this?

Painting the Republicans as the bad ones, again, and playing politics too.

Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell have said it was a "big embarrassment" for the GOP when they've previously voted to raise the debt ceiling, but now Republicans are creating a financial crisis and are "terrorists"