The president emphasized that he will not sign a short-term, stop-gap effort to raise the debt ceiling. He instead pressed for a way to solve the problem for a "long stretch of time," calling on lawmakers from both sides to "step up" and make compromises on an essential issue before 2012 politics gets in the way.
How about YOU stop spending, spending, spending? Trillion-plus deficitics for three years in a row and this ****ing goober wants to toss out a couple of glib phrases like some sort of elder sage.
Please. Someone put the adults back in charge. This child is embarassing.