This admission demonstrates that the President knows he’s just full of it – and he doesn’t care. Why doesn’t he care? Because he fully expects that he’ll be able to put the GOP on the spot in the upcoming budget battle…and today’s cave in by the House GOP over a mere $22 billion in additional cuts to this year’s budget indicates Obama may be on to something.
We did a lot of good in 2010, but we’ve still got a long way to go. The plain fact of the matter is that you could cut $500 billion from this year’s budget and not touch a single benefit check, nor cut a penny off of defense spending. Obama and his Democrats so bloated government spending over the past two years that massive cuts will be necessary just to get back to the profligate years of 2007 and 2008. But as long as we have RINOs, we’ll have this trouble – the rank, nauseating fear on the part of some GOPers that if they cut, they’ll be punished at the polls for it.
It is time for the TEA Part to reappear in DC – time to get our House GOP back up to scratch and let them know that they’d better fear us a lot more than they fear a hostile leading article in the Washington Post.
UPDATE: Over at NRO’s The Corner a bit of an explanation for the failure on additional cuts. Supposedly, we’re better off going for specific cuts rather than across-the-board (as the defeated amendment proposed). Me? I’m not sold on that argument, at all – to me it is irrelevant what actually gets cuts in non-defense discretionary spending as all of it is massively over-funded. But we’ll hold fire and see what happens in the GOP budget to be released in the spring…
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