Lipstick isn't coming off that pig

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...or donkey, as it relates to rhetoric vs actions, by the current manifestation of the Democrat party, run by messers Obama, Reid, and Pelosi.  On occasion you have heard them talk about "responsibilty", though its ususally muddled in sentences that include multiple uses of the word "fair" & "compromise"  The former is a mutated word by the left, while the latter is ridiculously absent, when it actually comes to policy.  It would seem that the Democrats' version of "compromise" is you do it our way, or we get the media to blame you for not doing it our way. 

The turn of the year fiscal cliff was met by repetative pleas for "compromise", as in tax increases AND spending cuts.  After vocal admonishment on how tax increases actually will stagnate job growth, the ONE area that would actually help generate increased revenues, the GOP capitulated to the "compromise".  Yet, has the MSM pointed out that the tax increases were not followed with any substantive tax cuts?  Outside of gutting the Defense dept some more, the left's version of cutting was simply a decrease in the rate of growth that they wanted, but spending still goes UP.  THAT's not a compromise

Now, you have sequestration which was the brain cild of Obama and the WH, that mandated ACTUAL cuts in spending, if more plausible efforts weren't achieved before a certain deadline.  The House has sent at least 2 actual bills that have a more responsible effect in cutting spending, but they sit on the "Party of no"'s Senate Desk, collecting dust, not even being allowed to be voted on.  But instead, Our Clown-n-chief is now barking for more "compromise", as in tax increases & "cutting spending".  Well, we've all seen how that one played out in January. 

The Sequestration was never about some "balanced approach"  It was specifically about cutting spending, period.  Obama thought the GOP would blink, since it included cuts in Defense.  But the GOP has called his sequestration bluff, and now Obama and the Dems are praying that the PR war, with intimate help of the MSM, will lay any "repercussions" of this mere 2% spending cut, at the feet of the GOP

The point of all this is that despite ANY rhetoric you might hear from messers Obama, Reid, Biden, or Pelosi, as it relates to a need to adopt some fiscal responsibility, when you see near panic state of a mere 2% cut in spending, its painfully apparent that the Democrats, as manifested by the folks above" have no intention of adopting any fiscal sanity, what-so-ever.  The only actual substantive cuts you'll see will be from the Defense budget....ironically the 1 area that is a Constitutional mandate of the Fed. 

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The Big O Goes for the Big Zero Again

As the president resumes his “It’s-not-my-fault” presidency-cum-campaign, I’d like to point out to everyone that it’s been 1,401 days since the Democrat-Controlled Senate passed a budget.

I say this because when the Mayan financial calendar runs out on the country this Friday, we’ll be awash in illegal immigrants, downed airliners, out-of-work teachers, Russian missile strikes, Chinese hackers and Aryan Nation terrorists.

And, oh, come on now: We all know that the only real terrorists the White House is worried about are the white supremacists at places like the Family Research Council.

There’s nothing so dangerous to America today as an organization that advances “faith, family and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.”

Except, perhaps, Glenn Beck, who still clings bitterly to his gun AND his religion.

While it’s temping to blame the entire financial mess on the president, I subscribe to the Occam’s Razor theory. It says that the most logical explanation, more often than not, is the right one.

Sooooo…that’s why I DO blame the president.

And no. Not any of the Bush presidents, but rather, I blame the Dear Leader, Comrade Barack H. Obama, Esq. & Associates.

As Bertrand Russell once observed about fallacious thinking: “The method of ‘postulating’ what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. Let us leave them to others and proceed with our honest toil.”

This I think sums up Obama’s budget and fiscal policies over the last four years in a nuthouse, err, nutshell.

Because behind all the posturing of the president, the demanding and the breath-holding, nothing better expresses the intellectual theft of Barack Obama than Russell’s observation of the cheapness of substituting postulation of what one wants for actual policy.

That’s why our Demander-in-Chief has not been able to get even a single vote on a “postulated” budget since April 29th, 2009. 

And “paaaahlease”: Spare me the claims that the 2011 kick-the-can contest that’s led to sequestration and has now turned into day 1,401 of The Fiscal Nightmare on Main Street was an actual budget.

Real budgets, honest budgets- budgets that are the result of honest toil rather than theft- those budgets don’t end in the finger pointing, posturing and postulating that the White House is doing over sequestration.

"If you look right now at what our economy needs,” postulated Obama, according to The Hill, “taking $85 billion out of over the next six months, indiscriminately, arbitrarily without any strategy behind it, that's not a smart thing to do. What we should be doing and what I've been calling for repeatedly... is a balanced approach to deficit reduction."

That last part? Oh, yes. That’s the give away. Whenever Obama speaks of “deficit reduction” it means he’s scared.

He’s suddenly turned down the rhetoric on spending more and now is back in favor of a “balanced approach.”

That’s the “theft over honest toil” part; that’s the postulated position of a man who is deathly afraid that the Democrats, once again, won’t give him a single vote on his budget proposals.     

Tax increases typically aren’t bragging points in any campaign. 2014 will be no exception.

The only way that Democrats will get away with hiking taxes again is if some Republicans join them in a majority.

Otherwise, Obama’s fiscal postulations will, once again, fail to get one, single vote- at least in the Senate.