Getting more and more Alice in Wonderland over there – a letter from the White House explaining why we can’t afford cuts to the White House budget, quoted over at NRO’s The Corner:
…The level of resources provided in the bill would significantly impact the EOP’s role in assisting the President in carrying out his constitutional duties as head of the Executive Branch, including protecting national security interests, developing policies to address the challenges facing the Nation, reducing the deficit and spending taxpayer dollars more cost-effectively, and managing the Federal agencies…
FDR fought World War Two with a staff of about 50 – Obama’s staff is many times larger. If FDR could fight WWII with around a 10th of Obama’s staff, then there is no danger in cutting the President’s budget. But this is the mindset of the government – of the Ruling Class: each and every person and program is vital and we dare not cut it. This is why we increased spending by a trillion dollars after Obama took office and neither Obama nor any other Big Government supporter will agree to cut it back to 2008 levels…they simply can’t imagine a world in which government isn’t big and always getting bigger.
The whole debt ceiling debate has this air of unreality about it – with Obama and his troops completely oblivious to facts. We’re broke – the money is all gone; we teeter on the edge of national bankruptcy…not a default if we don’t borrow more money by August 2nd (surely one of the most obtuse statements ever made) but of complete collapse in 2014 or 2015 if we don’t cut spending right away and by quite a large amount. We are financially doomed if we don’t roll back spending – by at least some hundreds of billions of dollars next year and it would be better if we knocked of a clean trillion from the estimates. But they just won’t see it – they can’t see it: if they do see it, then their entire, liberal worldview is sunk and it isn’t easy giving up a faith.
As we finish up this debate, don’t believe manufactured polls showing that the people want tax hikes or think Obama is doing well – those are polls deliberately created for the purpose of scaring Republicans in to signing on to tax hikes, debt ceiling increases and no real cuts. The real polls show what is happening – Obama’s popularity is cratering:
While the “generic” Congressional ballot continues to show GOP strength:
…A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 38% would choose the Democrat instead…
These polls are taken over long periods of time and consistently ask the same questions the same way…so even if they don’t get the number exactly right, they reveal the trend. And that trend is all down for Obama. He’s losing the debate; liberalism is losing the debate. We have them boxed in – they either have to agree to cuts, or go in to 2012 explaining why they think the Big Government is the solution. All we need do is stand firm, and we’ll win it all.
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what do you expect when we elect a marxist muslem community agitator who never even ran a lemonade stand?
If I remember correctly, grandmothers weren’t dying, eating dog food or being thrown off cliffs in 2008. So tell me again why we can’t go back to those spending levels.
Pretty simple, Cluster. Barry and the Boyz created a new budget baseline that is 24% higher, and, if you know ANYTHING about the federal government; the baseline NEVER GOES DOWN.
Spook is so right. Ever ask a burocrat if the specific job they were doing was absolutely neccessary? Oh the horrors to mankind if that one job ever got eliminated.
Every single one of Obama’s spending increases in the last two years is “off the table” in terms of debt reduction negotiations. So tell me again who the rigid one is?
This is a crisis created solely by Obama, and he has not once presented one responsible budget that adequately address’s the problem – and yet the media wants us to believe that he is the “adult” in the room. Is this surreal? Or is it just me?
Honestly Cluster what do you expect from the media? Why put any weight on what they say? Listenening to them only gives thier garbage credence. The main stream media will never, I repeat never, give anything but what they want you to hear. They have been in the tank for progressives since the 60’s. They will never say anything good about a conservative unless it helps thier cause.
This is one thing I do not understand about some conservatives. Why the need for what is basicly a propaganda machine to be fair? Askings todays media to be fair is liking asking the editors of Der Panzer Bär and Die Sturmer to be fair.
crazy but true…hope-n-change…just not what you hoped for…or what you thought would change….
ever thought you would see the day when the POTUS was surrounded and advised by socialists and marxists….or when america was afraid of the truth…because they might be accused publicly of being…a racist….
no…behind closed doors is the most revealing nature of obieOnes wanna be presidency…he cant hide his lies in plain sight any longer…we wont buy his hope-n-change routine again…so he resorts to hide behind the doors…back door deals…closed door meetings…and then…katy bar the door before legislation becomes law so we cant read it…hmm hmmm hmmmmm…
we cant even impeach this clown…he has usurped the office of POTUS…and congress itself has betrayed our constitution by allowing him to remain…you cant get fruit from this tree…it is rotten and must be shorn to the ground…and its roots dug out and burned….so that it cannot pass its disease on to the good tree’s…
Cloward–Piven strategy