As if somehow channeling the spirit of Adm. John Paul Jones, Barry has now declared, "Damn the spending, full deficits ahead." And in so doing Barry seems to now be going back on his promise to compromise on reducing the federal debt with a budget proposal for 2015 that would actually increase spending by $56 Billion. I guess I don’t understand how any responsible individual could go along with this level fiscal insanity. It’s obvious that what he’s determined to do here is nothing more than to bring about a complete financial implosion. And the Democrats, and too many Republicans, have no interest in trying to stop it.
Barry’s move, here, has as been referred to by some as being an apparent effort to bolster Democrats in this fall's midterm elections, and it abandons, completely, the "grand bargain" that Barry offered just last year in an effort to appease Republicans, or at least that’s how The Washington Post seems to see things. He had promised to put a lid on spiraling retirement spending by reducing cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients in return an increase in taxes on the richest Americans. But as is usually the case with this guy, his promises are pretty much worthless. A fact that Republicans seem a little slow in being able to grasp.
As budget details began to leaked out, a spokesman for GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s office said it’s more proof that Barry never intended to make good on his promise to work across party lines to trim the deficit. And a statement from Boehner’s office said, "This reaffirms what has become all too apparent: the president has no interest in doing anything, even modest, to address our looming debt crisis." Going on to say, "The one and only idea the president has to offer is even more job-destroying tax hikes, and that nonstarter won’t do anything to save the entitlement programs that are critical to so many Americans."
And of course it was the White House that was quick to point the finger at the GOP for Barry's apparent shift, at least according to The New York Times. "There was a point in time when there was a little bit more optimism about the willingness of Republicans to budge on closing some tax loopholes," Josh Earnest, a White House deputy press secretary, said. Gong on to say, "But over the course of the last year, they’ve refused to do that." Earnest made the rather idiotic claim that Barry’s requests are "fully paid for" and "offset by revenue increases and cuts in other parts of the budget." How many times have we heard that before?
Let’s face it, the $56 Billion spending-increase proposal is essentially nothing more than one more piece of evidence that Barry is the lamest of lame ducks, whose only solution to every problem is spending even more money that the government simply doesn’t have. With three long years left in office, it seems that Barry is already throwing in the towel. Too bad he just doesn’t come out and say that he’s quitting and taking ‘Slow Joe’ with him, then we could at least start getting things put back together. We’re obviously not going to be impeaching his lying, corrupt, ass anytime soon. That, I suppose, is just wishful-thinking on my part.
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