I missed this yesterday, but it’s something you need to be aware of.
As Peter Wehner says:
This is, even by Washington standards, unusually dishonest. And coming from the administration of Barack Obama, who promised us “honest” accounting and made a big show of how much integrity and candor he would bring to his governing, this is astonishing. And it should be seen in the context of a man who made a huge deal about his so-called stimulus package being free of earmarks — even though he knew he was going to get, and would soon sign into law, a $400-plus billion appropriations bill, which includes around 9,000 earmarks.
Obama and the Democrats are patting themselves proudly on the back over how the president proposed an ‘honest’ budget, which eschewed the gimmicks of the past. The farce on display here is enough to shred that promise. Nearly all of Obama’s ‘budget cuts’ consist of ending the Iraq war on more or less the timetable it would already have ended, and in raising taxes. Add to that a $634 billion downpayment on national health care, and vastly exaggerated economic growth estimates, and we see that Obama has delivered a budget that is $9 trillion in the red over 10 years, and still masks the true cost with smoke and mirrors.
The disingenuousness of this budget is an embarrassment. It ought to be completely rejected, and Orszag in particular should be concerned about the ruin it will do to his former reputation for candor.
Be sure to check out Ace’s take on this as well.
Steve Maley
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How 'bout we apply "Alinsky Rule #12" to this worm?
Steve Maley (Diary) Wednesday, March 4th at 5:24PM EST (link)If a junior engineer walked into my office and presented a recommendation based on such an ill-thought through P.O.S. study, I’d throw him out on his ear.
This shows the kind of lying weasels we’re dealing with.
And I mean no offense to weasels.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Obama's 'Honest Budget' is a Sham of a Farce of a Charade
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, March 4th at 5:49PM EST (link)Brian, I beg to differ, but only slightly………It’s the entire administration that is a sham of a farce of a charade.
Cheers !
WOW...three or more terms of this!
kdj53 Wednesday, March 4th at 5:49PM EST (link)according to www.govtrack.us/congress/bill
H.J. RES5 is “Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the Twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.”
Thanks SO much to all for voting for Obama…
He meant what he said…many did NOT listen…many were conned…many were “in a virtual party.”
Time for the responsible grown-ups to start to take control. Party’s OVER!
Rep. Ryan
Officious Intermeddler (Diary) Wednesday, March 4th at 5:59PM EST (link)I thought he did a good but not great job, here. Ideally he would have interrupted Orszag’s bobbing and weaving and said, “I’m looking for yes or no answers, here, sir, not equivocations. Are you or are you not assuming that the Iraq war would be funded at 2008 levels for the next ten years? Is that or is that not a reasonable, responsible budgetary forecast? Are you or are you not characterizing money not spent based on that unreasonable, irresponsible forecast as ‘savings’, and trying to claim political credit for it?”
In short, interrogate these pukes as if you’re conducting a courtroom cross-examination, and let them embarass themselves.
Where are the Filibusters?!?!?
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Wednesday, March 4th at 6:32PM EST (link)I want them one following another completely stopping the Federal Government from Operating and getting any more of these Socialists’ agenda done/through…. I want Filibusters from now until Republican Senators are all in the Hospital from Exhaustion and physically unable to Filibuster anymore!
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LMAO!!!!!!
navychick1993 Wednesday, March 4th at 6:59PM EST (link)I would love to see that! But I have a strong feeling that the group we have now isn’t up to the fight. I don’t think they truly understand how pissed off we are of what is going on in Congress and the Obama administration. When are they going to wake up????? I’m still trying to wrap my head around the mess going on here in Southern California. This is crazy!!!!
Ignorance comes in all shapes, sizes and colors.
Why did they stop short?
el_cid01 (Diary) Wednesday, March 4th at 8:28PM EST (link)They should have just estimated a savings of $20 kajillion by not extending the Surge through the year 5919, seeing as how wars will be much more expensive by then with spaceships, hover tanks, etc.
That would be enough to pay off the national debt AND fund national healthcare. Whatever’s left after that would, obviously, be spent on carbon credits.
the constant gardner
paulincolo (Diary) Wednesday, March 4th at 10:30PM EST (link)of the campaign, that is. These people never stop campaigning, therein the attempted number manipulation to claim future magical cuts that are actually a doubling increase. You would think with a lock on the exec and legislative branch, they wouldn’t have to do this, but this is about permanent power. “Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.”