His strategy instead is to provoke citizens into demanding that tax hikes on the wealthy replace the scheduled spending cuts. His speeches give the impression of a man exaggerating his arguments for exaggerated effect: Removing a comparatively small $85 billion from the final seven months of a $3.6 trillion budget just isn’t the biggest danger our republic will confront in this or any decade. Managed well, any family, business or government should be able to cut its budget by 2.4 percent in difficult times.
Unless, that is, the head of the family, business or government wants to make that reduction look suicidal. It’s telling that, as congressional Republicans prepare to give the president flexibility to pick and choose which spending to cut, the White House wants no such authority. Having it would undermine the message that the sequester is a GOP-inspired assault on Americans, and would expose Obama to criticism if his agency heads make unpopular choices. As The New York Times reported Tuesday: “White House budget officials are leery. If Congress grants the White House the authority to protect air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and national parks, the administration’s carefully devised high-pressure campaign that has been mounted for weeks could deflate.”
Yes, the MSM is in love with Obama, but they’re more in love with themselves and will ultimately opt for self-preservation. Should the GOP surprise virtually everyone and not blink, they’ll have to spin for themselves for a while to make it seem as if they weren’t complicit in the president’s doomsday mongering.
And that will be kind of fun to watch.
The 2008 election
The 2009 Stimulus
Obamacare
Benghazi
The 2012 Election
For every single one of those events we saw the media opt to completely ignore ethics, law and facts in order to serve Obama. Each time they did it we said "This is it, they've finally lost their credibility. This is the one they won't be able to live down." And every time we say that we're wrong.
Monster is right. They would go completely kamikaze in order to serve Obama. But they don't have to, because they know that low-information voters now rule the republic and they know those people a) have no attention span whatsoever and b) will believe whatever they're told.
Until we make some significant inroads into the media and academia this is how things are going to... (show more)
The 2008 election
The 2009 Stimulus
Obamacare
Benghazi
The 2012 Election
For every single one of those events we saw the media opt to completely ignore ethics, law and facts in order to serve Obama. Each time they did it we said "This is it, they've finally lost their credibility. This is the one they won't be able to live down." And every time we say that we're wrong.
Monster is right. They would go completely kamikaze in order to serve Obama. But they don't have to, because they know that low-information voters now rule the republic and they know those people a) have no attention span whatsoever and b) will believe whatever they're told.
Until we make some significant inroads into the media and academia this is how things are going to be. The only real question is if America as the Founders intended can survive long enough for us to do it. (show less)
I expect a heart-rendering profile of some poor urban single mom about how the evil Republicans and their sequester is dooming her child to poverty and ignorance because she can't send them to pre-school or get free school meals. This will be featured in the Sunday edition of the NYT or WaPo (trying to get back into the admin's good standing) and eventually win some award for reporting.
I expect a heart-rendering profile of some poor urban single mom about how the evil Republicans and their sequester is dooming her child to poverty and ignorance because she can't send them to pre-school or get free school meals. This will be featured in the Sunday edition of the NYT or WaPo (trying to get back into the admin's good standing) and eventually win some award for reporting.
Well, 'Bam, that's you, and you've now officially jumped the shark. How's that for you, eh? Even Bob Woodward is sniping at you. And you? More squalling, more complaining. "ME! ME!!!"
What a walking, steaming POS he is.
Well, 'Bam, that's you, and you've now officially jumped the shark. How's that for you, eh? Even Bob Woodward is sniping at you. And you? More squalling, more complaining. "ME! ME!!!"
What a walking, steaming POS he is.
Amy Payne(The Heritage Foundation)
February 27, 2013 at 9:52 pm
All this talk of “spending cuts” in sequestration is forgetting one important point: These aren’t true spending cuts. They are reductions in the rate at which government spending is continuing to grow, said Heritage President-elect Jim DeMint on “The Kudlow Report.”
He told host Larry Kudlow, “You can see…there’s no cuts in spending. In fact, it will continue to increase at a rather dramatic pace.”
While President Obama runs around warning everyone of economic devastation, it’s the President’s policies that are truly harmful to the economy, DeMint said. “He’s tried to discredit capitalism over the last four years, and now he’s trying to make a case that the only way to grow the... (show more)
Amy Payne(The Heritage Foundation)
February 27, 2013 at 9:52 pm
All this talk of “spending cuts” in sequestration is forgetting one important point: These aren’t true spending cuts. They are reductions in the rate at which government spending is continuing to grow, said Heritage President-elect Jim DeMint on “The Kudlow Report.”
He told host Larry Kudlow, “You can see…there’s no cuts in spending. In fact, it will continue to increase at a rather dramatic pace.”
While President Obama runs around warning everyone of economic devastation, it’s the President’s policies that are truly harmful to the economy, DeMint said. “He’s tried to discredit capitalism over the last four years, and now he’s trying to make a case that the only way to grow the economy is to continue to grow spending.”
Heritage recommends an approach to budgeting that would set the country back on a prosperous track.
“We want to see the country on a 10-year path to a balanced budget that creates some financial stability,” DeMint said. “We need some pro-growth policies like good, simple tax reform and entitlement reform to give some certainty out over the next 10 years.”
(Commentary)
Conclusion? The “Prevaricator-In-Chief” has been caught once again professing one of his lies…”Spending cuts!!!” Fact is, the rate of deficit spending is slowed by a mere 2.23%. That’s all!!! Jim DeMint has it right!!! ‘Ol Kabuki Theatre, smoke-an-mirrors, “prevaricator-in-Chief” is just plain lying.
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