Obama and the deficit

George Will:

Barack Obama, an unbeliever genuflecting before the altar of frugality, is asking Congress, as presidents do, to give him something like a line-item veto. Coming in today's context of his unrelenting agenda of expanding government, his proposal constitutes a counterfeit promise to get serious about controlling spending and the deficit. His purpose is to distract the public while Democrats enact something like Stimulus III.

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The much maligned Tea Party Movement deserves credit for getting Obama to at least pretend he is interested in controlling spending. With polling showing that voters are concerned about the deficit and the spending, Obama finds the subject hard to ignore, but he is not willing to do anything serious like rescind his health care monstrosity or not spend the remaining stimulus money. He could cut back on the 20 percent spending increases he gave to most government programs in his first year. What we are getting instead are some poll driven pretense.

How about a serious budget for the coming year. It want happen because Democrats do not want voters to know how much they are planning on spending in excess of revenues.

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