“Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally,” the senator said at the time. “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.”
That was then, this is now:
President Barack Obama, as it turns out, now believes his vote in 2006 was a mistake, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.
“He realizes now that raising the debt ceiling is so important to the health of this economy and the global economy that it is not a vote that, even when you are protesting an administration’s policies, you can play around with, and you need to take very seriously the need to raise the debt limit so that the full faith and credit of the United States government is maintained around the globe,” Carney said Monday
As Senator, I Cared About Your Children and Grandchildren. As President, I Don't
Fatboy sez: What. Me Worry?