Who knew?
National Journal – Obama’s Left Turn: Centrists fear that the president’s budget reveals his liberal leanings:
Having praised President Obama’s job performance in two recent columns, it is with regret that I now worry that he may be deepening what looks more and more like a depression and may engineer so much spending, debt, and government control of the economy as to leave most Americans permanently less prosperous and less free.
Other Obama-admiring centrists have expressed similar concerns. Like them, I would like to be proved wrong. After all, if this president fails, who will revive our economy? And when? And what kind of America will our children inherit?
But with the nation already plunging deep into probably necessary debt to rescue the crippled financial system and stimulate the economy, Obama’s proposals for many hundreds of billions in additional spending on universal health care, universal postsecondary education, a massive overhaul of the energy economy, and other liberal programs seem grandiose and unaffordable.
With little in the way of offsetting savings likely to materialize, the Obama agenda would probably generate trillion-dollar deficits with no end in sight, or send middle-class taxes soaring to record levels, or both.
All this from a man who told the nation last week that he doesn’t “believe in bigger government” and who promised tax cuts for 95 percent of Americans.
Yeah, see, the thing is that Obama lies his ass off.
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The purse strings belong to congress.
“Ah got mine, so screw yoo.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/08/graham-flip-earmarks/
Congress makes the budget, but the president can sign it or veto it. Obama is the one pushing for cap and trade for carbon, healthcare reform, and universal college education.
“Yeah, see, the thing is that Obama lies his ass off.”
Yes, but his transparency in his lying is sooooooo truthful.
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