Obama Audacious, Duplicitous, Partisan, Thin-Skinned, Valium Recommended say Republicans

Bob Corker, a freshman senator from Tennessee, attended the 80-minute meeting between Senate Republicans and Barack Obama. The meeting was reportedly heated, with Corker telling the President there was a "tremendous disconnect from his words and the actions of his administration."

Bob Corker 

I told him I thought there was a degree of audacity in him even showing up today after what happened with financial regulation," Corker told reporters. "I just wanted him to tell me how, when he wakes up in the morning, comes over to a luncheon like ours today, how does he reconcile that duplicity?

Obama requested the meeting and went to the Hill for lunch. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) said Obama "need to take a Valium" before talking to Republicans and called him "thin-skinned."

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said the differences in opinion between Republicans and the administration's policies "likely will not be settled until November about taxes, spending and the debt."

Senator John Thune (R-SD) said the "symbolism of bipartisanship" is not nearly as important as the "action of bipartisanship:"

Citing the scant or zero Republican support for the health care law, financial regulation bill and last year's financial stimulus, Thune said, "What we haven't seen is sort of the matchup between the rhetoric and the actions to follow through."

To add insult, border security was discussed in great detail, with some Senators calling for 6,000 National Guard to be sent to our southern borders. Sen. John McCain said said he told Obama we needed to secure the border first - and Obama disagreed. Immediately after the meeting, the Obama administration announced 1,200 National Guard will be deployed to border areas. The decision had obviously been made before the lunch with the Senate, but the decision was not shared with Republicans, even though the discussion was intense. Can this administration get less transparent - or creepier?

Linked by The Lonely Conservative - While Gulf States were Inundated with oil, Obama was Fundraising.

John Thune Apply TARP to Debt: End TARP - Pay Down Debt

Nancy Mathis at American Daughter is sharing some important information, that we are likely to miss in the excitement of the Democrat meltdown. Here's a pull-out quote to grab your attention. We need to contact our U.S. Senators. See info at the end of the article.

Barack Obama plans to use the remaining funds in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), reportedly about $200 billion, as a piggy bank for pet projects in Democratic legislators’ districts, to buy back voter support. These expenditures would be entirely unrelated to the original purpose for which TARP was passed — to buy toxic assets.

End TARP Now
by Nancy Mathis at American Daughter

Senator John Thune (R-SD) is trying to save $$ with an amendment to the Democrats’ expansion of the US debt.

Despite the clear message of the Massachusetts election this past Tuesday, Democrats plan to raise the debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion:

The Senate opened debate Wednesday on a plan to raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.9 trillion, a move that Democrats hope will see the Treasury through this fall’s congressional elections.

The record increase would raise the Treasury’s legal ceiling for borrowing to $14.3 trillion — about the size of the nation’s overall economy….

Do you get the significance of that casually reported phrase? We will be in debt by as much as our whole economy is worth.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama plans to use the remaining funds in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), reportedly about $200 billion, as a piggy bank for pet projects in Democratic legislators’ districts, to buy back voter support. These expenditures would be entirely unrelated to the original purpose for which TARP was passed — to buy toxic assets.
Senator Thune has submitted an amendment to the legislation to raise the debt ceiling, calling for an immediate end to TARP and lowering the debt limit by an amount equal to whatever funds are recovered from TARP.

From the Daily Caller — TARP has run its course by Sen. John Thune:

….TARP funds may become just another slush fund for Democrats to spend on pet projects that might be good for them politically, but do nothing for our national economy. Far from spending our way out of this recession, this flawed approach would just dig us into a deeper hole

Take the president’s last $800 billion stimulus package as an example. He billed that as a guaranteed way to create up to 4 million jobs. Since that stimulus was passed last February, our economy has lost 2.7 million jobs, and unemployment has risen to 10 percent….

TARP has already strayed far from its original purpose of taking toxic assets off the books of financial institutions so they could get back on their feet….
This week Senate Democrats will vote to again expand the nation’s debt limit by at least $635 billion $1.9 trillion, and I have introduced an amendment that would end TARP immediately and lower the debt limit by an amount equal to whatever funds we get back from the program. Taking steps now to reduce the uncertainty created by a ballooning national debt will have a far greater impact on righting our economy and allowing private businesses to create jobs than will any new spending by the government.

TARP was never meant to be the president’s piggy bank for costly new stimulus spending, and the wisest thing we could do with the remaining TARP money is to end the program so these funds won’t be wasted. I hope Senate Democrats will take this opportunity to join their Republican colleagues in supporting my amendment to finally end the TARP experiment. In doing so, we can take one small—but significant—step on the path toward fiscal responsibility.

H.J.Res.45 – Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt was introduced in the Senate yesterday. You can track this resolution at Open Congress here.

ACTION ITEM: Call, fax or email both of your US senators and tell them to support the Thune Amendment to House Joint Resolution 45. Find contact information for your senators here.

[Editor's Note to our readers -- The legislation to increase the national debt ceiling is House Joint Resolution 45. Don't confuse this with House Resolution 45, the egregiously anti-gun-rights bill titled Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009. The first is a joint resolution with the Senate, while the second is simply a House bill. They just happen to have the same number.]