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.