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    Daniels: Obama 'Totally AWOL' on Debt Reduction

    Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels attacked President Obama on Sunday, characterizing his first term as a “failed presidency” and saying the president was “AWOL” on debt reduction.

    The election will be “a choice between [Obama] and a future of certain decline and indebtedness, and the Republican Party," Daniels said on CNN's State of the Union.

    Daniels, a former head of the Office of Management and Budget who was tapped to deliver the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address this year, called the current economic climate "the worse recovery ever from a serious recession."

    "History says the deeper the down, the sharper the up," he said. "It should've been a very vigorous" recovery.

    Daniels went on to squarely blame Obama, saying the president has not gone far enough on issues like debt reduction. “The president went totally AWOL on this largest of subjects,” Daniels said.

    The comments follow President Obama’s budget request, which was delivered to Congress this week and which Republicans criticized for, among other things, not adequately tackling debt reduction.

    Daniels also raised other issues Obama may have to address during his 2012 fight for reelection.

    "This is a really pathetically weak economy with storm clouds in Europe, storm clouds in oil prices,” he said. “I consider it very unlikely that president Obama will have anything but a big negative in terms of the biggest issues of all."

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    25 comments

    • luca brasi  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      Who is this guy?
    • FlBiker  •  3 mths ago
      Here's a Barack Obama sound bite, from February 23, 2009, that you're likely to hear oh, about a zillion times this fall — but not from the Obama team: "Today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we've long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay — and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.
      • Kentucky 3 mths ago
        And if he had not had the Nopublicans, he might have done it.
      • sooner 3 mths ago
        His party controls congress. He not only didn't reduce the deficit, it is more than twice as high as it was when he took office. So much for change...we got our change, a huge deficit, more then ever illegal people in our country, and many broken promises.
      • WILLIAM 3 mths ago
        that's before thay went over the books and found out Bush and Daniels created two unfunded wars they were never on the books as a Deficit Even Cheny said Deficits don't matter
    • Shokd  •  Anchorage, Alaska  •  3 mths ago
      I look forward to the time that the American electorate looks at public servants like this and say, "So, what exactly have you accomplished?" Whatever Congress would have you believe, we don't have a single person system and it's not the president's job to fix everything. It's impossible when Congress won't let you!
    • Candy  •  3 mths ago
      debt reduction comes by way of two main themes: cut spending first, then stop borrowing.
      • Kentucky 3 mths ago
        When you are up to your arse in aligators, it is a bad time to start draining the swamp.
      • terryton 3 mths ago
        But Pelosi was going to drain the swamp in 2006. What happened?
    • WILLIAM  •  3 mths ago
      Oh Yeah Look who's Talking His State isn't in the Best of Shape either
    • WILLIAM  •  3 mths ago
      Remember Dickey Cheny's words and I Quote" Deficits Don't Matter" HMMMMMM Me thinks the Republicans are sunkabandon Ship
    • John  •  3 mths ago
      Mitch Dainels was Bush's budget director. So thanks Mitch for 2 unfunded wars, and unfunded drug prescription program and unfunded tax cuts for the rich. No credibility at all.
    • ladyj  •  3 mths ago
      And who want to believe Daniel, I don't, he sold out Indiana, he went back on his words to the unions about the RTW bill How long was he in the white house under bush doing the budget, I see he never done anything to help the deficient while he was there.
    • Amos  •  3 mths ago
      Nothing to say about his handling of anything.
      • Y'know 3 mths ago
        I got somethin'.
      • Kentucky 3 mths ago
        Yeah, that Iraq war is really going bad, and how about Lybia, and will anyone ever get BinLadin and .....
    • Missology  •  Richardson, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      The POTUS talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk........all these poor folk he SAYS he's helping haven't seen zip of any improvement in their life......if he has his way we'll all be goverment employees.....the subjects of his majesty "the king of usurpers" of American liberty, freedom and justice........he's a lyin sack of sh....t
    • Y'know  •  3 mths ago
      He's right--all we gotta do is do like Daniels did: like, sell off Indiana's highways built primarily with Federal buck$ to foreign transnational corporations so they can charge Americans stiff tolls to drive on 'em.
      That sumbitch would privatize the CIA and hock it to China, if it looked like there was a dime in it.
    • sidartha  •  Manila, Philippines  •  3 mths ago
      Anybody who hasn't the courage to repeal the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires is AWOL on deficit reduction. Daniels only has the courage to make poor people suffer to lower the deficit.
    • Kentucky  •  3 mths ago
      AWOL, AWOL, didn't we have a president who went AWOL from the Air National Guard...
      • WILLIAM 3 mths ago
        Yeah and don't we have a Congress that's AWOL
    • Opus  •  3 mths ago
      Mitch as I recall you were GWB's budget director when all this #$%$ started - where were you then just creating the mess so you can #$%$ about it years later? Mitch you are being a POS - I know him personally and will tell him to face next time I see him
    • Dick  •  Mishawaka, Indiana  •  3 mths ago
      Our supreme Muslim doesn't even like the USA. He gives billions of our tax dollars
      to aid his Muslim friends countries. He and low class wife travel in luxery frequently cuz
      it's free. I'm still not convinced he qualified for office. Sorry brain-dead Obama supporters,
      but face it... He is our worst President ever. Let's get a REAL American in the White House !
      • J1 3 mths ago
        No, that would be Bush.
    • andy t  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      AWOL on everything, except, vacationing and playing golf..oh great job at campaigning and raising money as well.
    • Bart  •  3 mths ago
      Indiana has the highest incidence per capita of white male serial killers.
    • Citizen  •  3 mths ago
      How exactly are Republicans helping to reduce the deficit when all they're trying to do is give millions in tax handouts to billionaires while cutting a few hundred bucks from folks on food stamp!
    • DJet  •  Fort Wayne, Indiana  •  3 mths ago
      Daniels sold out Indiana to the highest bidder. Nice goin' Mitch. He's pretty much insignificant now.
    • don s  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      The recessions are longer and DEEPER.....and wages never rebound to higher levels.
      Now we have another bubble developing.....due to Fed massive liquidity. This new bubble
      probably will pop in obama's second term....near the end.... and after his major transformation to a European failed socialist economy......and it's going to be REAL PAINFUL.
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