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Republicans have a short-term memory problem

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Last week in an interview with George Stephanopolous, President Obama stated that "we don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt".

Republicans immediately jumped on him for saying that, with the official GOP twitter account linking to a transcript of the interview and saying, "Unbelievable that Obama says 'we do not have an immediate crisis in terms of debt.' Then what is $16.7 T in debt?!".

Today, Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner says...we don't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. Republican House Budget Committee Chairman (and 2012 Vice Presidential nominee) Paul Ryan says the same thing.

The GOP twitter account has been remarkably silent about that so far.
 
Apparently they agree we didn't have a short term debt crisis before the election, but now we do. :rolleyes:

I liked the way Obama put it when the government's credit rating was downgraded. He said despite what S & P says, the actual market all over the world still regards the U.S. government as about the most creditworthy investment there is.
 
eeyore1954 said:
Have Boehner or Ryan ever said we have an immediate debt problem?
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Perhaps they ought to have a chat with their own party, then.

Still no tweet yet from @GOP for Boehner and Ryan calling their statements unbelievable and asking them what "$16.7 T in debt" is.
 
eeyore1954 said:
Have Boehner or Ryan ever said we have an immediate debt problem?
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The criticism here is that the RNC bashes Obama for saying there isn't an immediate debt problem while ignoring the fact that prominent Republicans have said exactly the same thing.

Yes, it would be shocking if Boehner and/or Ryan simply contradicted themselves. But that's not the point made in the OP. The RNC seems to be guilty of opposing a statement merely because Obama said it.
 
They were complaining on Meet the Press about Obama saying that deficits don't matter today........
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
The criticism here is that the RNC bashes Obama for saying there isn't an immediate debt problem while ignoring the fact that prominent Republicans have said exactly the same thing.

Yes, it would be shocking if Boehner and/or Ryan simply contradicted themselves. But that's not the point made in the OP. The RNC seems to be guilty of opposing a statement merely because Obama said it.
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You don't think a major portion of the Republican Party do believe we have an immediate debt problem.

I bet you could hear Hannity and Mark levin mumbling when they heard Borhner even without a radio.
 
eeyore1954 said:
You don't think a major portion of the Republican Party do believe we have an immediate debt problem.
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I don't know. If they do, they're wrong. But the point is, Obama, Boehner and Ryan publicly agreed that we do not have an immediate debt problem, but the RNC tweet bashed Obama for saying it. If they were trying to argue against the point, why did they single out Obama?
 
thaiboxerken said:
I guess the title of this thread is true. Thanks for demonstrating.
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I understand your point, but I do not think they have any memory problem. Just one of lack of integrity, honesty and care for anyone but themselves and their bosses.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
I don't know. If they do, they're wrong. But the point is, Obama, Boehner and Ryan publicly agreed that we do not have an immediate debt problem, but the RNC tweet bashed Obama for saying it. If they were trying to argue against the point, why did they single out Obama?
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My only answer would be a tu quoque .

Although I doubt if an official tweet would have gone out if they had all said it before the tweet.
 
eeyore1954 said:
Either I said it wrong or you don't understand the point.
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#On_the_economy

You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.
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The Republican party will attack anything Obama says just because it was Obama who said it, even if it was said by Republican congressman or vice presidents. The truth value doesn't matter. Whether they agree with it or not doesn't matter. Obama said it, therefore it's worth attacking.
 
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Deficits matter to political independents like me. To knee-jerk partisan hacks they only matter when the other party is in power.
 
eeyore1954 said:
My only answer would be a tu quoque .
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It would be a tu quoque if we were debating the question as to whether or not there is an immediate debt crisis. But as I understand it the only point of the OP is that the RNC jumped on a statement pretty obviously only because Obama said it and not because of the content of the statement.

Although I doubt if an official tweet would have gone out if they had all said it before the tweet.
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Yes, that's kind of the point. If the exact same statement were made by Boehner or Ryan and not yet by Obama, there likely would have been no RNC tweet attacking the statement. That kind of tells us that it's only a cause for bashing if Obama says it.
 
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