Hmm: Carney Won’t Comment on the Size of Obama’s Preferred Debt Limit Increase

Guy Benson  Political Editor, Townhall.com  Jan 17, 2013 02:16 PM EST

Let's see if you can make heads or tails of this vacuous jumble of words from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney:  The question is extremely simple: If Congress agrees to meet the president's demands and hike the debt ceiling without any preconditions, what dollar figure and/or time frame would the president like to see in the legislation?  Increasing the debt ceiling isn't a hypothetical or symbolic action.  It involves extending the government's ability to borrow a finite amount of money -- you know, actual dollars and cents.  Carney doesn't even try to answer the reporter's basic and reasonable question; instead, he reverts back to mindless repetitions of Obama's exhortations for Congressional action.  Yeah, we got all that, Jay.  Your boss prattled endlessly about it on Monday.  So what's going on here?  I see two possibilities:  To Read More…..