why Obama will not get a clean debt limit hike

"As you well know, sir, finding votes for the debt ceiling can sometimes be complicated. You yourselves as a member of the Senate voted against a debt ceiling increase. And in previous aspects of American history, President Reagan in 1985, President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, President Clinton in 1997 all signed deficit reduction deals that were contingent upon or in the context of raising the debt ceiling. You yourself four times have done that; three times those were related to deficit reduction or budget maneuvers.

What Chuck [Todd] and I and I think many people are curious about is this new adamant desire on your part not to negotiate when that seems to conflict with the entire history in the modern era of American presidents in the debt ceiling and your own history on the debt ceiling. And doesn’t that suggest that we are going to go into a default situation, because no one is talking to each other about how to resolve this?"


CBS News’ Major Garrett


http://washingtonexaminer.com/six-r...-debt-limit-hike/article/2518503#.UPTvh2fNkm4

 

President Barack Obama sidestepped a question today about why he expects members of Congress to vote to raise the debt ceiling, when he himself voted against raising the debt ceiling when he was a senator:


http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...oted-against-raising-debt-ceiling_695382.html