Well, isn’t that interesting — President Obama’s little speech on budget cutting tonight will actually happen this afternoon. 1:30PM Eastern time. Or as my boss put it in an email just now, “This is not a prime time speech. It is only for inside the beltway consumption.”
And there’s a very good reason for that. By jumping on the budget cutting bandwagon, Obama is essentially repudiating two years of Obamanomics. Although Obama will be much smoother, today’s speech is the equivalent of Ronald Reagan getting up in front of an audience in 1983 and declaring, “My plan is not working. I’m going to have to tax you bastards back to the Stone Age.”
Instead, here’s an educated — and distressingly sober — guess on what the President will say.
My fellow
Beltway InsidersAmericans. There are some on the left who say we need a “People’s budget,” with huge increases in taxes and spending. And there are others on the right, who say we need to eliminate everything buy the military and reinstitute slavery. But I say, let us make intelligent cuts, let us eliminate waste and fraud, and let us have those at the top contribute their fair share to our financial recovery. This moment is too important for us to let it waste away in partisan bickering. So I urge congressional leaders from both parties to sit down together and reach an agreement to move America forward and win the future.
This stuff is also distressingly easy to write.
Needless to say, I won’t be drunkblogging this one. But I will be watching — with one eye on the bottle I keep on the desk.
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