He’s Baaaaaaaack!*
It’s the socialist, warmalist, Kumbayahist, pie-in-the-sky, head-in-the-sand Obama 52 percent of the American electorate came to love over the course of Campaign 2008. Washington Post:
President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said.
In addition to tackling a deficit swollen by the $787 billion stimulus package and other efforts to ease the nation’s economic crisis, the budget blueprint will press aggressively for progress on the domestic agenda Obama outlined during the presidential campaign. This would include key changes to environmental policies and a major expansion of health coverage that Obama hopes to enact later this year.
A summary of Obama’s budget request for the fiscal year that begins in October will be delivered to Congress on Thursday, with the complete, multi-hundred-page document to follow in April. But Obama plans to unveil his goals for scaling back record deficits and rebuilding the nation’s costly and inefficient health care system Monday, when he addresses more than 100 lawmakers and budget experts at a White House summit on restoring “fiscal responsibility” to Washington.
Kind of a tough sell a week after signing a historically massive, pork-laden bump in the national debt, you’d think. But America bought the idea that he was ready to govern, represented new politics, whatever that was supposed to be, was a bi-partisan reach-across hope/change kind of guy, so maybe they’ll buy that. Too bad we have to play craps with Iraq and Afghanistan just to get a crappy socialized health system. But there’s a silver lining.
Republicans, who are already painting Obama as a profligate spender, are laying plans to attack him on taxes as well. Even some non-partisan observers question the wisdom of announcing a plan to raise taxes in the midst of a recession. But senior White House adviser David Axelrod said in an interview that the tax proposals reflect the ideas that won the election last fall.
They also reflect the ideas that could win the election in 2012. For the GOP.
Good a time as any for a tea party. Malkin re Overland Park protest. Reynolds rounds it up.
Gateway’s depressed. More precisely, he figures the economy will be. Irrepressible Surber can’t repress a snark on this and other stuff.
Riehlity check: “… the way Obama plays with messaging it’s hard to figure out.”
* So, did he ever go anywhere? Good, but complicated question, now that I think of it. The foreign policy thing briefly looked promising. The new politics is a farce, and it turns out he really isn’t that adept at the old kind, no more than anyone else who panders to his own party’s congressional majority would be. The program may be back, but does anyone knows who or what or where this guy actually is? I’m starting to think he doesn’t even know, which is about as bad as it gets.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:54 pm on Saturday, February 21, 2009
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February 21st, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Dude …
It’s Saturday night and you have no comments? Folks are off work, yo! They should be reading Da Jules, my man!
Yeah, Obama’s gonna “balance” the budget. He’s also going to make pigs fly, or so the lefties hope.
Hope all’s well, my man. Keep on the Afghan beat, will ya. We gots nobody else …
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February 22nd, 2009 at 1:35 am
Reminds me of IPCC #4: deliver the Executive Summary first; the main document(s) to follow when they have been edited to match the Summary.
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