Asked by Gay Patriot:

Where’s that “Net Spending Cut” Obama Promised?

Candidate Barack Obama, October 15, 2008, third presidential debate:

But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.

Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut.

Economist Kevin Hassett, May 19, 2009, Bloomberg News columnist:

Extrapolating out the 2007 CBO forecast, our government plans to spend about $5.6 trillion more between 2009 and 2018 than was projected to be spent when the Democrats took over control of Congress.

To put that number in perspective, at the start of the 2007 budget year, Democrats inherited $4.8 trillion in outstanding government debt. That means that all of the deficits that have been run through all of history, funds that were used to finance the Vietnam War and the Iraq War and everything else in between, would be smaller than the spending increases of Democrats over the next 10 years if they are permitted to stay in power and keep up this pace.

Dear liberals: Obama lied. He never, not even for a moment, meant to have a net spending cut. If you believed him, you were a complete fool. If you didn’t believe him, then you deliberately supported someone you knew to be a liar. You pick: you’re either fools, or accessories to lying. Those are your only two choices.

Have fun.

Things that make you go, “hmmmm”:

Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds.

About a third of the state’s voters would re-elect Reid if the 2010 election were held today, according to the poll, but 45 percent say they would definitely vote to replace him. Seventeen percent would consider another candidate.

I don’t think there could be anything more fun than running for Senate when you don’t particularly care about the results – but even more fun is having a 1 in 100 chance of winning. Who wants to have some fun?

Just pathetic:

Republicans are trying to pass legislation in the next few weeks to kick off the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the only hurdle appears to be Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is refusing to let the Senate vote on the bill.

Because he wants some pet bill he doesn’t want to put through the regular legislative process – trying to piggy back his project on a plan to honor America’s 40th President…a man so far above the likes of Feingold that its a national disgrace to think that Feingold can even cause this sort of trouble.

I mean, for crying out loud:

President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday.

With debate looming on Obama’s spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo’s 241 detainees.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the proposed changes to the bill were to be unveiled later.

The administration has yet to develop a plan for what to do with the detainees, and Obama’s promise to close the facility is facing strong GOP opposition.

It appears to be a tactical retreat. Once the administration develops a plan to close the facility, congressional Democrats are likely to revisit the topic, provided they are satisfied there are adequate safeguards.

But this is the American gulag! The place where Nazi-like Bush-bots ruthlessly torture people picked up at random for nothing at all! How can Democrats refuse to fund the closing of this miserable, inhuman hell hole?

Oh, because the campaign against Gitmo was just political BS designed to slander Bush and help Democrats to win – they don’t really want these terrorists on the loose and/or getting ACLU representation in American courts. I mean, are you kidding me? Did you leftists really think that (a) Gitmo was the horror your leaders said it was and (b) that anyone with any sense at all wanted to close the place? To be sure, it will eventually be closed – some time after November of 2012 when it can’t affect Obama’s political fortunes, plus or minus, ever again.

Won’t close it now. Won’t admit they were wrong. Of course, you lefty foot soldiers, just what will you do now? Is it too much to ask that you start thinking?

Like anyone should be surprised:

Democrats fix sights on GOP prosecutor

Easley, Edwards probes under way

BY J. ANDREW CURLISS – Staff Writer

John Edwards admits federal investigators are asking him questions. Federal subpoenas were issued Friday related to Mike Easley.

As the separate federal probes into a former senator and the former governor are emerging, Democrats are taking steps to replace the Republican prosecutor who is spearheading the inquiries about the highest-profile North Carolina Democrats of the past decade.

All the nearly 100 top federal prosecutors across the country serve at the will of the president. Any replacement for U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding, a Bush appointee who has kept a priority on public corruption cases from Raleigh to the coast, will be subject to U.S. Senate confirmation.

The process gives a key role in the decision to U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat who was in the state Senate leadership for several years until she unseated Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in November. Already, Hagan has formed a panel to screen candidates. It is led by Burley Mitchell, former chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court who now works at the Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice law firm.

Interviews were scheduled for last week and this one, and Mitchell said he expects to forward the name of a preferred candidate to Hagan by midweek. “We’re definitely working on those right now,” Hagan said in an interview Wednesday. “And hopefully within the next few weeks we can go forward.”

Hagan said any movement is coincidental to continuing investigations.

Uh, yeah; whatever you say, Hagen. Meanwhile, back in the real world what we’ve got here is a long-time Democrat operative seeking to get rid of the GOP prosecuting looking into corruption amongst long time Democrat operatives. If this is coincidence then I’m the Tooth Fairy. We won’t be holding our breath for our liberal friends to be screaming bloody murder about the removal of a prosecutor – expect endless statements about how, hey, US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President (provided, in liberal-speak, the President is a Democrat and the US Attorney being gotten rid of has the goods on Democrats).

Here is the crux of the cases:

Edwards, a former senator, vice presidential nominee and presidential candidate, has acknowledged the federal investigation into whether any money given to his presidential campaign — or to nonprofits connected to his campaign — was funneled to his girlfriend, Rielle Hunter. Edwards has admitted having an affair with Hunter, who was hired to make short videos for the campaign.

Easley, governor from 2001 until January, was the subject of a federal subpoena issued Friday to the state Highway Patrol. The FBI wants records and information related to Easley’s private air travel. A separate state Board of Elections inquiry also is under way into a range of activities.

Those probes follow reports in The News & Observer about Easley receiving the free use of cars, free flights on jets owned by supporters, and his relationship with McQueen Campbell. Campbell was chairman of the N.C. State University Board of Trustees until he resigned Friday. Federal investigators have asked for information about the cars and about a Carteret County land development where Easley bought a lot.

This is the sort of stuff which brings down political classes – the sort of thing, that is, which would make Democrats, on the whole, toxic in North Carolina in 2010…and as we know, the primary concern of Democrats is the maintenance of Democrat power. Expect Holding to be removed before these cases go to court and expect Holding’s successor to eventually plea bargain the cases down to nothing. And expect this sort of thing to go on just as long as the Democrat rank and file refuse to hold their own to the standards they insist GOPers adhere to.

A note about the press:

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Now that the initial panic has subsided, it is time to get down to brass tacks – and its actually looking a bit grim:

The new influenza strain circulating around most of the United States is putting a worrying number of young adults and children into the hospital and hitting more schools than usual, U.S. health officials said on Monday.

The H1N1 swine flu virus killed a vice principal at a New York City school over the weekend and has spread to 48 states. While it appears to be mild, it is affecting a disproportionate number of children, teenagers and young adults.

This includes people needing hospitalization — now up to 200, said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“That’s very unusual, to have so many people under 20 to require hospitalization, and some of them in (intensive care units),” Schuchat told reporters in a telephone briefing.

“We are now experiencing levels of influenza-like illness that are higher than usual for this time of year,” Schuchat added. “We are also seeing outbreaks in schools, which is extremely unusual for this time of year.”

And just wait until the real flu season starts in the Fall – and wait until it hits in the much more septic cities of the Third World. We’re no where near out of the woods on this.

If Obama were merely naive, we’d be better off than this:

U.S. President Barack Obama set a rough timetable for his diplomatic outreach to arch-foe Iran for the first time on Monday, saying he wanted to see serious progress by the end of the year.

He also held out the prospect of tougher sanctions against Tehran “to ensure that Iran understands we are serious.”

The only “serious progress” we’re going to see down this road is serious progress towards an Iranian nuke and/or progress towards an Israeli attack on Iran – and that attack, it must be remembered, might end up nuclear if Israel feels it is the only way to insure itself against an Iranian nuke now and for at least a considerable time in the future. Does Obama realize we’re dealing with messianic lunatics in Iran and an Israel which, pardon them, doesn’t want to be exterminated?

I hope he figures it out, soon.

Not hardly:

One statistic that stands out in America’s recession-stung economy is the unemployment rate for adult men: in April for the second month in a row it surged ahead of the national average to 9.4 percent versus 8.9 percent for all workers. The jobless rate for adult women was 7.1 percent.

The reasons are clear: male-heavy sectors such as construction and manufacturing have been hard hit. But the implications may be dire for the broader economy and hamper the recovery as families that once had male breadwinners struggle.

“In the 2001 recession, 51 percent of all job losses were for men. It was evenly split. But in this recession 80 percent of the jobs that have been lost have been men’s,” said Andrew Sum, a labor economics professor at Northeastern University who has studied this issue in detail.

Which means that the sectors most hurt right now are those areas which make, mine and grow things – areas which Obama is completely ignoring in favor of bailing out bankers and foreign investors while mortgaging more of our future to China simply because he doesn’t want to give up on his megalomaniac plans for health care reform. Rather than send a trillion dollars down the usury rat hole, its time to use the money to fund start ups for new manufacturing, mining and farming enterprises – its time to get back to work and start creating wealth in this country.

Too bad Obama doesn’t understand this at all.

Might boil over, so I’m glad to hear this:

The United States has a detailed plan for infiltrating Pakistan and securing its mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads if it appears the country is about to fall under the control of the Taliban, Al Qaeda or other Islamic extremists.

American intelligence sources say the operation would be conducted by Joint Special Operations Command, the super-secret commando unit headquartered at Fort Bragg, N.C.

If it looks like the government of Pakistan is about to collapse, then securing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons will be required. Its not a matter of “should” but “must” – no ifs, ands or buts about it, we have to go get them, cost what it might. Nothing which could happen in the course of getting those weapons would be worse than allowing those weapons to fall into the hands of messianic fanatics.

While President Obama can rely upon it that his base will be lukewarm, at best, over such an action he can rely absolutely upon conservatives to back him 100%. No horror stories, no planted “American criminal” propaganda will sway us from support to opposition – when the guns go off, the only thing we seek is victory in the shortest amount of time for the least possible cost and only a clear unwillingness to fight for such could turn us to opposition.