Michael Tanner of the CATO INSTITUTE says it all:
Let’s be clear: There have been no spending cuts since Obama became president. In 2010, the first year that President Obama was fully responsible for federal spending (President Obama signed the 2009 budget, but it’s fair to blame most of the spending in it on President Bush, who essentially proposed it), the federal government spent $3.45 trillion.
Last year, we spent $3.54 trillion, nearly $100 billion more. And, outlays for the first four months of FY 2013 are $39.3 billion more than in the first four months of FY 2012. If we have seen a slight reduction in budget deficits, it is due exclusively to tax hikes and additional increased revenue as the economy comes out of recession.
And given the presidential wish list, we aren’t going to see any spending cuts anytime soon. The president wants to spend more money on education, infrastructure, “green energy,” manufacturing subsidies, universal preschool, and pretty much everything else. At the same time, the president warned that the upcoming sequester, a 2.4 percent reduction in projected future federal spending, would return us to something akin to the Dark Ages.
The Impostor's previous budgets have garnered exactly zero votes.
This one should be no different.
Bronco Bama was talking to low-information people, those who glean what little they know of the news from Comedy Channel’s Daily Show. Jon Stewart is the best journalist they know. And WAY funnier than Chris Matthews.
No minds were changed, no revelations appeared in the sky written in fire.
Meanwhile, his approval ratings remain in the mid- to high-50s. Though today’s polling doesn’t include the audience that watched the SOTU, the sheeple are no doubt loving all this. They’re standing by their man.
Problem is, that all sails over the pointy little heads of most Americans. It simply doesn't matter that this nation is headed full-tilt toward the thick, brick wall of default. All that matters to them is whether they get their scoop from the bowl.
Ha! Good luck with that.
"The country" is more interested in who wore what at The Grammies the other night.
Ah, well. The fight goes on.