Obama calls Republicans in their lies and smear game

Barack Obama apparently suffers from his own brand of ADD -- Addiction-to-Deficit Disorder -- as demonstrated by his recently unveiled proposal to freeze one tiny portion of government spending at current levels for three years, which by the way wouldn't begin until 2011. He highlighted the proposal again Wednesday night in his State of the Union address.

At first blush, the idea sounds like something conservatives would cheer. In fact, other than Democrats, who isn't for stopping the spending juggernaut? But as a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) quipped, "Given Washington Democrats' unprecedented spending binge, this is like announcing you're going on a diet after winning a pie-eating contest."

A closer look at this diet reveals that the freeze would apply to a budget that enjoyed a 20 percent increase in 2009, courtesy of the Democrats' largesse. Under the guise of "tacking to the center" in the wake of his trip to the woodshed in the Massachusetts election, the president's proposal would actually lock in a sizable spending increase during those years, as opposed to a real freeze. (No wonder Republicans burst out laughing during the SOTU.)

Furthermore, while the plan claims savings of roughly $250 billion over the next decade, the freeze applies only to non-defense-related discretionary spending, or roughly 17 percent of the total federal budget. Even at that, however, the cap is by no means across the board. Education and job creation initiatives would receive increases, because everyone knows government creates jobs, and education ... well, as long as we keep throwing more money at it, it'll get better, right?

Other items exempted from the proposal are even more revealing. This includes entitlement programs (about two-thirds of the federal budget), virtually all legislation -- past or future -- with the term "stimulus" in it, including the unspent cash from the latest stimulus legislation, and the yet-another-stimulus-package proposal from The Chosen One's SOTU. Health care spending would also get a pass.

Naturally, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D, Lala-land) rushed to offer up defense spending as a sacrificial lamb to further the cause (so much for the "non-defense-related" caveat). Pelosi's suggestion was immediately lauded by Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il and a host of other despots.

For perspective, we would add that these hypothetical savings pale in comparison to the $1.4 trillion actual deficit in 2009 alone, and that the Congressional Budget Office -- a virtual shill for Democrats, no less -- forecast just this week that the deficit for 2010 likely will be at least as large. All told, in fact, the government will hit its current $12.4 trillion authorized debt ceiling by the end of February.

So given the president's call for fiscal "responsibility," one might assume Democrats would jump on the bandwagon. Not so. Every Senate Democrat -- every Democrat -- voted Thursday to raise the debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. That's $45,000 of debt for every American man, woman and child. But as Obama so succinctly (and ridiculously) put it in the SOTU, "That's how budgeting works."
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Today the idiot from Texas was trying to explain his ignorance on national TV and just made it worse. How do these jerks get elected? Even Joe Scarborough said that Obama put it in the face of Republicans. But this kind of exchange does help bring the tables closer together. I say it was a win for the country. Obama was called on the rug, Republicans were exposed for their ignorant lies and some consensus was made towards progress. THIS is why Obama is a brilliant President.

oh the desperation i hear seething from your blind lashings. it is down right hilarious watching the
wheels come off your socialist bus. you still blame bush when the traitorous criminal you and a complicite
media stuffed down our throats is the reason our nation is on crash course with disaster. all you shell shocked idiots can do scream for bush and cheney to be brought up on charges. you have nothing new, you nothing to contribute except fascist rantings and you party and your ideals are commiting suicide.
why don't you face the brutal fact that bush is GONE. YOUR COMMIE MUSLIM IS THE ONE THAT IS GUTTING EVERTHING THAT MADE AMERICA GREAT AND ALL YOU SHEOPLE CAN DO IS BLAME BUSH. GET REAL!!!

tig, the mess we are in was caused by your very own saintly dodd, frank, rangel & company. the bitter truth is that a democrat controlled congress forced banks to write mortgages to people who could not even afford the down payment; then when the house of cards crashed, what did your snivling little whiners do??? BLAME BUSH. Dodd and Frank used Freddie & Fannie like personal piggy banks and not only are your pet theives still busy bilking tax payers, you guys once again went bawling on about big bad bush. you guys screwed america and now peolpe are waking up and rejecting you, your messiah, his crony thugs, and his socialist agenda. who does it feel to see your agenda and your party dying???

you are excused for your revisionist history. we were doing fine right up until your liberal porkers took over in 2006. check out when gas prices really started going nuts. not until pelosi & co. took over. i am not advocating that republicans do no wrong but i'm sorry the majority of this mess was caused by power hungry greedy pigs such as Dodd, Frank & Rangel. check how much franklin raines walked away with after frank&dodd inc. raided mac & mae.