Ari Fleischer actually said...

Every president has to deal with the issues that are on the plate in the era in which they serve.

We can't have a debt this high.

Barack Obama was a United States senator, he opposed raising the debt limit. He called it unpatriotic to raise the debt limit.

But President Obama's budget, if he gets everything he's asked for, would increase it by $10 trillion, twice the amount.