Rep. Jordan says Obama is like an 18-year-old with a credit card

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) this week compared President Obama to a kid with a maxed out credit card, and said Congress needs to act as a responsible parent and rein in Obama's spending habits.

"What we have in Washington is the 18-year-old who got a hold of the credit card, maxed out the credit card," Jordan told the The Lima News. "The first thing you do as parents is you cut up the credit card, and you put them on a budget. The president just wants a brand new credit card. He doesn't want a budget. In fact, they haven't passed one in three years."

Jordan, who chaired the Republican Study Committee in the last Congress, said he voted against the fiscal-cliff deal because it delayed planned spending cuts. He said Congress can't delay cuts any more, or the U.S. will run the risk of a massive debt crisis.

"Here we are ready to raise the debt ceiling again, and we haven't done one dime of those promised reductions from the last debt ceiling agreement," he said. "This is where I say the madness has to stop."

He also accused Obama of dodging the issue of spending cuts, and said this is understandable given the four $1 trillion budget deficits Obama has presided over.

"If you've presided over the four largest deficits in American history and you've been president when the debt grew by $5 trillion in your first term, maybe you wouldn't want to talk about it either," Jordan said.

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