| Submit your comments on this article |
| -Election 2012 |
| Rubio in letter to Obama: You are turning America into a 'deadbeat nation' |
| 2012-01-06 |
| In a scathing letter sent to Barack Obama this morning, Senator Marco Rubio said that under the President’s first term in office, “more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation.” Rubio went on to pledge that he would challenge any further increase in the debt ceiling, arguing that “we [Congress] need to make it routine to actually spend no more than we take in.” In the letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, the Florida Senator said that President Obama’s upcoming request to increase the debt ceiling by a whopping $1.2 trillion will cause the nation’s public debt to surpass the $16 trillion mark. “I will oppose your request to continue borrowing and spending recklessly.” President Obama is expected to request the new borrowing power from Congress once the Senate and House return from their holiday recess. If the President led the charge to reduce the country’s unsustainable debt in mid 2011 rather than punt the enterprise to a “Super Committee,” asserted Rubio, we’d already be on a pathway toward economic growth and prosperity. "Unfortunately, the first three years of your presidency have been a profile in leadership failure." The letter concludes: “America deserves leaders who will stand front and center, level with the American people about our challenges and offer real solutions to solve them. Instead of simply asking for another debt ceiling increase, I urge you to come forward with a real plan to tackle our debt in 2012.” This is the latest salvo in the debt ceiling debate in Washington. The letter |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #1 Nice letter, and it needed to be said, and he said it in spades.' Now let's see the good Senator sue the Prez over the recess appointment. the Repubs have been way too quiet on this; I am beginning to think they have even tinier balls than Bambi. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2012-01-06 21:54 |