It should be illegal for anyone to name anything for an employee of the United State government, or any of their family members, as long as they are in government–and for some period after as well.

And this is why politics sucks:

This “cut” should be something we Redstaters should support. Same thing for Medicare cuts.

Instead, we will probably use it to score cheap political points.

(Not saying Erik is necessarily doing this cuz he never said he was against this cut but…)

What the hell is congress giving money to any school for any aspiring olympians…..I live in Michigan too…… It should be cut. God only knows what Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin have here in their name.

he’s got bigger cajones than the entire Republican Party in DC.

The federal government has not business funding these type of things. It is this kind of largess that got us into this trouble to begin with. Time to cut all such programs from the peoples budget.

I sneeze $1M in Federal funding every week. $1M will pay for a grand total of *3* people.

How about we focus on things that matter? Cause when we go all absolutist over $1M, we look foolish.

This is political payback, and it cost WAY more than $1M to just find this program in order to kill it. Not that I think it is actually dead, the executive branch can’t defund anything.

He may be looking to ride his meaningless Stupakid (Stupak sham – how the Stupid (er.. Stupak) Amendment was all a sham vote and Forest for the Trees, + Hyde – setup backdoor challenge to Hyde (Abortion funding restrictions)) Amendment to the MI Governorship… They (Democrats) hope that the BarackLash might pass them by if they can somehow slice off enough Pro-Life Independents while convincing their Pro-ABORTION base to go along with the nomination as the only chance they’ll retain control.

But it’s the Chicago Way.

The One is vindictive, isn’t he? It is not the money, it was a direct slap from Obama to Stupak, but he can’t defund anything. Congress is supposed to fund things, or did Obama take that away, I’m sure he’ll try it.

Look at this from the President’s point of view. Republicans can’t fault him for cutting the budget, because that is what we want. And Obama gets his revenge against one of the people that delayed the passing of the health care bill in the house. It shows just how petty Obama can be. The money is barely a drop in the bucket but it helps to send a message to everyone listening. Cross Obama and he will find a way to hurt you, because in Chicago they always keep score. This is a good lesson for any Republican out there that might think about working with this administration in any meaningful way.

This shot at Bart Stupak gives new meaning to the word petty, but I’m not surprised at anything this President does. Beyond this sad incident, Obama’s obsession with unfriendly media, e.g., his attempts to silence Fox News, really is reminiscent of RMN’s obsession with a very hostile and liberal press.

Thin-skinned, petulant, and intrinsically dishonest: Barack Obama has all of Nixon’s undesirable qualities, and none of his good ones.

and everything to do with revenge. That is the real problem. I don’t like ridiculous earmarks as much as the next redstater, but when they are eliminated as revenge for not getting what you want… that is a problem. This arrogant SOB is just bullying people who don’t go along to get along. That is the big problem.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/obamas-budget-has-one-small-missing-piece-63-trillion-dollars

Today, to much fanfare, the administration released its ridiculous $3+ trillion budget (we say + because at that size the one thing certain is that the budget will certainly never hit the target and while we wish it would be lower, we are certain it will end up materially higher), which consists of a “short” 192-page summary section and a 1420 page appendix. We are confident that not one politician will read the whole thing from cover to cover. We won’t either. Not because we don’t care about what’s in it, but because we are much more concerned with what is not included, namely $2.8 Trillion and $1.9 Trillion of MBS guaranteed portfolios at Fannie and Freddie, and an additional $782 billion and $809 billion in company debt outstanding for the two GSEs, respectively. This amounts to a total of $6.3 trillion in liabilities which should be counted toward the budget.

What If Bush Did It?

Cutting spending on something is contrary to the Democrat agenda. So the question has to be asked, why did he do it? The answer is pure and simple chicago thug revenge politics.

We need to hit this, and hard.

He can simply claim that he never read the whole thing, thus absolving himself from any responsibility.

the other NEA, you would see we give grants for art profs to “appreciate Renaissance paintings in Florence, IT” and pay for private piano lessons for a Harlem girl who has to rent a piano and send a high school British lit. teacher to Japan to look for Shakespeare’s influence (this one happened in my own school system, and everyone was overjoyed that she got the grant).

The whole Rube Goldberg system, mostly invented by Johnson, of grants and more recently earmarks is rife with fed gov’t monies going to private citizens for what those people should pay for by themselves.

The tax code is 3-feet thick–one person cannot pick up all the volumes together.

If we end nothing, we should make a major Rep./cons. push to return private responsibility to the ind. and relieve gov’t of paying for personal incidentals.

The kicker is that the Dems. saw long ago that all this money shoveled out of the fed budget is going to buy votes on a large scale over and over again.

Give a narcissistic tyrant the power of POTUS and he can kill two birds with one stone. Not only does he kick Stupak in the teeth, he kicks all associated with the Olympics – also on his enemies list. Just too good an opportunity to pass up.

I know politics can be rough and pay-backs are hell, but this just seems childish and petty. Small minded stuff from a small mined man.

Obama may talk a good game, but he really is the drunk loud mouth at the end of a bar who annoys everyone and eventually the bartender has to ask him to be quiet or leave. He stalks out telling one and all he will never come back, but he does the next day because he has not enough imagination to go elsewhere.

Two years, eleven months to go.

Obama has to cut funding from hard working young Americans dedicated to a goal that requires their very best efforts over a long period of time. After all his base needs all the help he can provide so they have a reason to get out of bed and make their way to the mailbox twice a month.
The young people striving to win gold this year are better off without government money. This way when they win they will realize that Big Brother Barack was not needed for them to succeed.