Here's the isolated president's perception of how painfully the feds need to address their fiscal canyon: "If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out to dinner, you might put off a vacation."
Delay a vacation? Where, to his planet? When millions of American families would settle for having a job in Obama's unstimulated economy? Or keeping their home while the Democrat lobs $53 billion more taxpayer money winning the future with unions to build high-speed trains for nobody to ride -- but to do so very rapidly?
As Obama did with extending the Bush tax cuts in December, it appears....
... the president of the United States is positioning himself as the reluctant follower again: 'Gee, it looks like I'll have to accept those cuts from these GOP hostage-takers, as much as I don't like them.' Which, of course, would get him both the cuts to brag about next year, proof of his willingness to compromise, if not lead, and cover from his left, which thinks his phony proposed cuts now are too much.
As he did with the design of the stimulus spending bill two years ago, Obama is leaving the real -- and politically risky -- detailed cutting work to Congress.
He knows and says that reforms in the huge entitlement spending is where the real whacking work needs doing. But he doesn't whack there. You first, Mr. Speaker.
On Monday when Obama's less-than bold budget plopped on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats were way too busy to talk much on TV cameras; after all, many of them are up for reelection next year and the most recent voter message that flipped the House on a historic scale over to those Republican weinies was not exactly, "Hey, charge it. Whatever you need."
So, rushing past, Democrats said merely, good starting point. A warning sign to any White House that's attempting to substitute the word "investing" for "spending."
However, judging by the words coming from the Republican House majority, its members are preparing to respond enthusiastically to that voter spending howl. In a joint statement, the GOP's House leadership said:
The American people are ready to get serious about tackling our fiscal challenges, but President Obama’s budget fails to lead. The president’s budget punts on entitlement reform and actually makes matters worse by spending too much, taxing too much, and borrowing too much –- stifling job growth today and threatening our economic future.Boehner added: "The president apparently believes a $607-billion budget deficit is 'living within our means.'"
I'd say? What we are witnessing here, is a major peek in the box and a major departure of base line support for the president and his policies by party loyalists.
Which never ceases to amaze me when I see things like this. What exactly did these people expect? I mean truthfully, what did they think the man and the party were going to accomplish.
Setting aside the reality that those in the L.A. Times and other mainstream American media, did everything in their power for eight years to demonize George Bush, what the hell did they expect from a rainbow coalition of new party socialists from Chicagoland?
Now the realities are settling in on the left that so joyously marched to the tune of the piper and here this fellow is asking what planet Obama is from? I believe those on the other side of the isle have been pointing that out since day one and no one in the MSM cared to address it before now.
The reality is, America cannot sustain the unbridled spending that this president and the previous congress have saddled us with. They can blame the recession on Bush until hell freezes over, but the truth and reality speaks to the roots of the problem that were decades in the making. Just as the truth points to the fact that those in democratic leadership denied the impending danger and collapse of the American housing and mortgage industry until it was too late. And in the aftermath of the disaster that they defended to the very end, their only response after the collapse was to blame Bush.
Yet it appears that at least a few in the media are beginning to realize and recognize what this nation is now faced with. Even so, the litmus test of what the people will tolerate and what they will accept for the next ten years, is presently being formed in Wisconsin and Ohio and the other states where unions are being taken on head to head.
America's fiscal fate literally hangs by a thread and what comes of these protests and the actions of these now republican controlled legislatures will determine our fate for the immediate and long term future..
Meanwhile, Obama's words are haunting. In the midst of this crisis (and from day one in office) the man has not practiced hat he preached as it concerned constraint or sacrifice. His extravagant personal spending on vacations and travel and his wife's retinue of camp followers during her extravagant vacations has become legendary. And as we speak, Michelle and the girls are on a skiing vacation while VP Biden and family are taking in the Keys this weekend.
I guess they never got the memo on constraint or tightening or the need to reduce expenditures or lead by example for that matter. Or the postponing of vacations that the president once spoke of as the sacrifices he expected all Americans to have to endure.
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