And never was a President more deserving of a ripping:
Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) tells National Review Online that the spending freeze is a “long, long way from the medicine we need to cure our government’s addiction.” A day before President Obama’s maiden State of the Union address, McCain also says that he is disappointed with the president’s recent mea culpa to Diane Sawyer.
“I was flabbergasted by that interview,” says McCain. “Instead of that, what I’d like to see tomorrow — and won’t — is the president saying that he promised to change the climate in Washington, but hasn’t. That he promised to broadcast health-care negotiations on C-SPAN, but didn’t. And that he promised to sit down with Republicans and work in a bipartisan fashion on issues like the economy, then decided not to. That interview was transparent. He’s looking to avoid any blame.”
“While I’m glad to hear about the freeze, and that he decided to change his position from the campaign trail, it’s only part of the solution,” McCain says. “Anything like this is better than what he’s been doing.”
I know a lot of my fellow conservatives still have a problem with McCain but let’s face some facts here: he would be a much better President than Obama is being. Sure, he’d tick us off by lurching to the left on some things, but we wouldn’t have this amazingly dishonest, hard-left government wrecking America, day by day.
Obama has lied to us again and again and now expects us to believe that his so-called spending freeze is something other than eye wash. The budget is to be frozen at current levels – ie, at the level where we’re bankrupting the nation. Additionally, Obama has given himself all sorts of wiggle room to increase funding on liberal, pet projects. And we can top that off with the concern that Obama is just flat out lying – saying he’ll freeze, when he really has no intention of doing so.
We need not a freeze, but at least a 25%, across-the-board reduction in spending – and if this means that more than half the government employees have to be fired, then that is just what we’ll have to do because we can’t starve the troops nor cut SS benefits to the elderly. But we’ve got a lot of chair polishers who can be shown the door – or they can agree to a 50% reduction in pay, whatever they prefer. Bottom line: we have to stop borrowing. Today.
Unless and until Obama does the right thing, he’ll just be digging us further in the hole and all his populist rhetoric will be just so much nonsense designed to sucker people in to ignoring reality.
UPDATE: While they talk fiscal responsibility, they are set to have deficits which will never be less than $1 trillion over the next ten years.
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