Yesterday, on NBC’s Meet The Press, moderated by Obama sycophant David Gregory, Treasury Secretary Turbo Tax Tim Geithner pronounced that many Americans will face hard times for a long time to come.

According to this rocket scientist, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) rescued the United States from a second Great Depression and will keep working to strengthen the economy. However, Obama’s stooge says that it will be some time before many people feel like the country is recovering.

Geithner, during his thoughtful analysis, told Gregory that it’s a very tough economy.

Gee, DiNozzo.  Ya think?

Obama’s Treasury Secretary said that for a lot of people

…it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.

Now, you can pick your jaw up off the floor.

Speaking of Geithner’s messiah, Obama met with House Speaker, Cryin’ John Boehner, and other Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle, yesterday, about raising the Debt Ceiling and the Battle of the Budget currently being debated in Congress.  The meeting lasted 75 minutes.

There was not any sort of agreement reached over how far the parties should go in cutting the deficit over the next decade or whether tax cuts and entitlement reductions should be a part of any deal. Congressional leaders will return to the White House today to continue talks, administration officials announced, with Obama holding a morning news conference before they do.

Oh, joy and rapture. If it’s the same ol’ garbage, like Obama slung around in Friday’s press conference in reaction to the horrendous Monthly Jobs Report, he can keep it to himself.

Yesterday, both sides accomplished nothing by digging in deeper into their held positions, leaving America with a history-making default, deadlocked talks, and a tanking economy brought about by a clueless, socialist White House.

Boehner announced on Saturday that the Republicans would not support the larger deficit-cutting plan Obama has proposed because it includes tax increases.

During yesterday’s meeting, Obama supposedly asked Republican leaders

If not now, when?

Well, Mr. President, if you are continuing with your plans to hasten America’s destruction through taxing those whose make our economic engine run, namely America’s business leaders and hard-working average Americans, Boehner’s reply should have been:

When Hell freezes over, Scooter.

Obama and the Democratats have responded to the impasse by whining and warning that, unless a deal is reached within two weeks, to give Congress time to approve it, the United States would default on its fiscal obligations for the first time.

When he was asked if they could reach a deal in the next 10 days, Obama, flanked by hiscongressional Democratic flunkies in the Cabinet Room before the meeting, said simply:

We need to.

…or I won’t be re-elected. (I added that.)

According to an anonymous Democratic sycophant…err…official, Obama pushed for his larger plan throughout the meeting. He reminded Boehner that the speaker had admitted that a smaller deal could be just as difficult to push through Congress as a large one, and he challenged Republicans to return to the White House on Monday with a plan to secure the 218 votes needed for a measure to pass the House. Then, like the petulant guest lecturer that he is, Scooter chastised the Republicans telling them to expect to meet daily until a deal is reached.

According to a senior administration official:

The president pushed to do something real and not just kick the can down the road. He said he was ready, willing and able to make the hard choices and hoped they would join him.

If he can have things his way.

On the Republican’s part, they suggested that a “contingency plan” is in the works to raise the debt ceiling if the gulf between the parties could not be bridged.

However, Obama wants no part of baby steps, saying that now is the moment to address the underlying causes of fiscal imbalance.

…so, I can brag about it during my re-election campaign. (I added that, too.)

Obama’s Obama’s slavish sycophants at washingtonpost.com are worried:

After weeks of debate, Obama may have a tenuous hold on the political high ground as he takes on a more visible role, urging party leaders to set aside ideology to trim an estimated $4 trillion from the deficit over the next decade.

Obama’s political strategy since his party loss the midterm elections has been to portray himself as a reasonable man in partisan Washington, at times angering Republicans and Democrats in doing so.

His proposal, which he has said would bring certainty to an economy constrained by anxiety over the nation’s fiscal condition, would involve spending cuts to agency budgets, including the Pentagon’s; ending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans; and changing entitlement programs in ways his party has traditionally opposed.

Obama’s political advantage may fade quickly, though, if a deal cannot be reached before Aug. 2, the date the administration says the nation will begin to default on its obligations unless the borrowing limit is raised. Polls show that most Americans believe he has managed the economy poorly, and the unemployment rate’s jump to 9.2 percent in June has raised alarms within a White House looking toward reelection in 2012.

And after all, that’s what’s most important to Obama and the Democratic Party, right now.

Not the  citizens, nor the country, that they have sworn to protect, from enemies foreign and domestic.