obama's budget increases the deficit thirty percent over terrible 2010's record rate
the outyears are worse, obama's budget relies on growth rates unrealistic and interest rates unsustainable
monday, tax cheat in chief geithner called out his own administration over its outyear projections
now everyone's playing "my cuts are bigger than yours"
even andrew cuomo and moonbeam brown are eager to compete with the likes of chubby chris christie
keynesianism is disgraced, a dinosaur
obama's going around bragging about his bipartisan tax cuts---he was dragged kicking and screaming, after punting for two years americans' central relationship with the irs, before finally surrendering on those tax cuts for the rich on the eve of the biggest tax increase in history
he promised a thousand times no one under 200K would see a tax increase, yet obamacare includes three quarters of a T in new revenues
he still doesn't get it, even after tsunami tuesday shellacked his obama butt---his budget proposes 150B in new stimulus, which he can't call stimulus, his rhetorical resort today is "innovation"
yet he admitted to ny times mag in december that he only just discovered "there's no such thing as a shovel ready job"
for two years, he pusillanimously and irresponsibly kicked the can to his default debt commission, but his budget ignores its recommendations
where's the leadership?
the nyt, wapo, huffpo, the wsj all savage his cowardice
the upcoming spending wars probably won't be as intense as most pundits predict, the party still in power must capitulate
a sizeable slice of dem congressfolk will defect
the white house, always insular, is more isolated than its ever been
it's checkmated, no way out
the battlefields are not confined to the budget---we will fight over appropriations, we will fight over the debt ceiling
we will make substantial demands to which the white house will be forced to submit
funding for planned parenthood, the corp for public broadcasting, the epa, implementation of obamacare are just some of the most headline grabbing of our bargaining chips
and we hold a trump card that is game changing
yesterday, white house budget director lew was grilled before house and senate budget committees by members from both parties
kent conrad, the gatekeeper's right hand, the north dakota dem who first cassandra-like foretold the collapse of the public option, took the lead
when america is forced to look to the senate, embodiment of endless chin-stroking deliberation sans action, for leadership, we're in trouble
obama's a joke, a fraud, he's in way over his head
he never intended to be president in times like these
in a crisis, most particularly, americans look to their white house
today, no one's home
embarrassed yet?