If you examine the chart from the Heritage Foundation above, you realize that something else other than inherited budget deficits is going on.
When the first line of questions at your presidential news conference is along the lines of trusting government, you know we are in deep trouble.
Washington Post, cleverly, notes the Flat Tires on the Omnibus:
THE CONGRESSIONAL budget process — and process is an awfully polite word for the current chaos — gets uglier and uglier. The $410 billion omnibus spending bill that is crawling to final passage and an unenthusiastic signature comes nearly halfway through the fiscal year. It covers spending for pretty much the entire domestic side of the government — yet none of the nine bills merged into the single giant package were ever considered on the floor of the House or Senate. President Obama’s not-my-problem stance may be canny politics: Why put any political capital into this one when there are so many other difficult fights to come? But his asserted stance that this is, in the words of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, “last year’s business,” borders on irresponsible. This may be last year’s business, but Mr. Obama is this year’s president.
Sounds like someone’s throwing his most deeply held campaign convictions under the Obama-bus.
June 7, 2009 at 10:05 am |
[...] by the Democrat House of Representatives. And this is how it has all came out in the wash … Deficits are now throught he roof as government spending is totally out of [...]