Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post fact-checker, took a lot of heat
for ducking out of a fact-check on President Obama’s efforts to walk back his
famed “chemical weapons red line in Syria” comments. But he’s not pulling any
punches when it comes to the lines of red hooey Obama is drawing around the
debt ceiling. This is what the President said yesterday:
You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or
the threat of not raising the debt being used to extort a president or a
governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the
budget and nothing to do with the debt.
Kessler peels away the crusty layer of legalism poured over Obama’s
comment, and finds it only takes a few licks to reach the Tootsie Role center
of falsehood, listing numerous incidents where the debt ceiling was employed as
leverage for various issues….To Read More….
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