As announced in THE HILL yesterday:
Obama warns left: You won't like budget
By Alexander Bolton - 01/17/12 05:30 AM ETTop White House officials are warning liberal and labor leaders to brace themselves for President Obama’s budget proposal.
Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, sought in meetings last week to lift the left’s gloom about Washington’s crackdown on spending by promising that the president this year will focus on job creation rather than deficit cutting.
How those two grafs fit together in the same universe, much less the same article, is best left to the philosopher kings. My guess is, they're telling us not to go away mad, but to just go away - and don't forget to vote D.
So that's the bad news. Here's the "good" news:
“I know there have been a variety of meetings and discussions with White House folks on the budget,” said Mike Lux, a Democratic strategist who advises liberal and labor groups. “I know from my perspective of working at the White House in the Clinton years, you have to prepare people when there’s tough news. It’s much better to have these conversations in advance.
“The White House has been doing a good job of briefing allies and prepping people,” he said.
And that's what counts - that the stooges, staffers, and pundwits get a chance to make up plausible excuses. The rest of us are just good for a laugh.
So if you think you're hearing a loud "Haw haw haw" emanating from Versailles
, you're probably not imagining it.
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Gasp! Who could have foreseen this?
"He must stick to the $1.047 trillion spending cap he agreed to with GOP leaders, which means he will call for less discretionary spending than he did last year."
does Obama plan to actively run against the base?
Does he think that he can actually gain votes by being attacked by the base? That inciting attacks is part of the strategy? I just do not get this maladministration.
Since 2008 it's been my belief - not at all in jest - that
Obama's an RNC mole, tasked with the total destruction of the Democratic Party and its ideals. As tinfoil as that seems, it's the only explananation that fits the activities and staffing of his administration.
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
That's Correct
Unfortunately, it took me until the fall of 2009 before I started thinking like you. By the Spring of 2010, I was firmly in your camp and have been ever since. What sickens me is how few people can see past the Liar-in-Chief's rhetoric and how quickly people, particularly Blacks, have the knee-jerk reaction that if you are anti-Obama, you have to be a Republican. Gahhhhh!!!
The important thing is to never stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
“We’ve seen the pendulum go
"Pppppfffffbbbbtttt," said another liberal advocate.