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Funny that he's bashing the House Republicans for not cutting enough, because if you read the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teefs coming from the New York Times editorialist, the House Republicans are out of control and trying to slash every 'essential' government program in reach.

But FOX News has Governor Christie's remarks...

“I look at what’s happening in Washington D.C. right now and I’m worried. I’m worried," Christie said to a crowded room at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.

“The president’s not talking about it because he’s waiting for the Republicans to talk about it,” Christie said. “And our new bold Republicans we just sent to the House of Representatives, they’re not talking about it because they’re waiting for him to talk about it. Let me suggest to you that my children’s future and your children’s future is more important than some political strategy. Let me suggest to you that what game is being played down here is irresponsible and it is dangerous. We need to say these things and we need to say them out loud. ”

“When we say we’re cutting spending, when we say everything’s on the table, when we say we mean entitlement programs, we should be specific.”

“Here’s the truth that nobody’s talking about. You're gonna have to raise the retirement age for social security,” he said. “Whoa, I just said it, and I'm still standing here. I did not vaporize.”

I like this guy. In New Jersey, he's taken on the pensions, the education system, and health benefits and costs. And the Union Thugs associated with (and driving) all of the above. A 'blunt and direct' approach to Dirty Socialisms. What's not to like about that?

And, you notice he's attacking both Republicans and Democrats. Who else did that whilst Governor ? Can you imagine the Team R duo Christie - Palin 2012?

Don't discount the possibility that Christie might be the Republican 2012 Presidential candidate. Just because he said he's not running, doesn't mean a thing at this juncture. If he's plays his cards right, he'll not get in the race until the last minute, so as to not attract the attention of the hateful Obama press and the low-level KOSupporters. Let the front-runners catch the majority of hate from the ankle-biters. Let the New York Times AGAIN try to 'anoint' our candidate as they did with John McCain (before turning on him), pushing a weak, soft, 'pragmatic' sort of bozo like Mitt Romney or Huckholio. Let the ObamaPressCorps attack those front-running candidates like they have attacked Sarah Palin, with the ferocity that wolves show for lambs.

Then, perhaps at the convention, Unleash the Christie.

No matter what becomes of this current Congressional - Presidential budget fight, it's merely a runner-up warmup to the fireworks coming soon enough. The political season that started with the CPAC Convention running all the way to the November 2012 election is going to be brutal, and we who are political aficionados will not suffer lightly further Republican missteps such as we did in earlier races; accepting Bob Dole or John McCain.

Things have changed forever; thank the rise of the Tea Party for that. Our 'Tea Bags' will crush your soft lefty faces, if you insist on using that analogy.

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And I like that, really.

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BHO used "future" 11 times in his presser 2/15/11. Worried, much?

This 2012 Presidential Budges is the worst case of an elected official sticking one's fingers in one's (elephantine) ears and "LALALALA!!"ing that I've ever seen. BHO's 2012 budget, known 'Dead on Arrival' as soon as it was printed, is too much for even him to keep a straight face.

So, BHO trotted himself out yesterday for a presser (transcript here). The spinning machine at the NYT softened what was Barcky's drawing back a bloody stump to this...

Obama, Conceding Budget’s Limitations, Seeks Consensus

Hmmmph. 'Limitations' is not the word to use anywhere nears this fiscal monstrosity.

WASHINGTON — President Obama conceded on Tuesday that his new budget does not do enough to resolve the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, but he counseled patience, suggesting that he would eventually come together with Republicans on a broad deal.

When pigs fly. So much has BHO and his lefty minions trashed Republicans that any 'concessions' we make should be done only after extracting public apologies. Instead, BHO is sending out feelers...

The White House has already opened back-channel conversations to test Republicans’ willingness to negotiate about the soaring costs of Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security’s long-range solvency and an income-tax code riddled with more than $1 trillion a year worth of loopholes and tax breaks.

What BHO has in mind is to play both ends against the middle. What BHO wants to do (the crux of the biscuit) is to both cut some of the Democrat's favored entitlements just enough to elicit a howl of protest from his mooching constituent base (you're hurting WOMEN, CHILDREN and MINORITIES FIRST!) and then place the blame for these 'excessive cuts' squarely on EVIL! Republicans, THEN promise to 'restore' the hurtful cuts just in time for his election, promising the Liberal Children that he is still 'fair'; and as soon as he's re-powered for another term, he will FIX THE PROBLEM! (tax the rich). If you think that BHO is NOT weighing every move he makes against the backdrop of his own re-election, you are a blindered partisan who would rather ignore the nearing-insurmountable problems of this nation for reasons of clearly-failing ideology (remember the 'debt crises last year in Greece and other European countries? That's a wake up call to Social Democrats, here and there.

Why else would BHO unstop his ears long enough to want to hear from Republicans?

Barack Hussein Obama is playing a deep game here, with the only objective he's playing for to get re-elected and stay in power. Oh, and to CHANGE this nation like it's never been CHANGEd before.

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Finally, today, front-page New York Times headlines breaks the news to the unbelieving Left:

Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power

Projections suggest there is virtually no room over the next decade for new domestic initiatives for President Obama or his successors.

There's the dagger in the Democrat's unwieldy and expensive Health Care plans. That remarkably grim line should stop Cap and Trade in it's tracks.

And how are Democrats ever going to get elected when they cannot promise new goodies to their base? What incentives will they have to offer now? No more promises of free lunches for Democrat voters! How will the Democrat Party survive?

From The Daily Caller...

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag didn’t exactly sound bullish about the prospects for health care reform when asked Monday how its passage, or non passage, would factor into the federal budget deficit.

“It’s a very small share of the more than $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction [over 10 years] that’s contained in the budget,” Orszag said, noting that he had factored in about $100 billion over the next 10 years as savings from a health care bill.

Orszag appeared to be downplaying the impact on the deficit – projected to be $1.6 trillion this year and about $9 trillion over the next decade – if health care does not pass. White House staff pushed back hard Monday against such a characterization, and pointed to numerous statements by Orszag saying that he thinks health care will pass the Congress.
But that looks increasingly unlikely. In any event, the $100 billion toward deficit reduction is only one of several items in President Obama’s budget that the White House says will cut down the nation’s budget imbalance, but which very likely might not happen.

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security entitlement costs are growing without any new sources of funding. Those programs will, worst-case, fail completely; at best, they will have to be slashed and gutted.

Oh, and China's already said that the U.S. fiscal policy of "I'll pay you next Wednesday for a burger I'll eat today" borrowing methodologies, well, stink, and won't be workable much longer. We can't continue masquerading as a World Super Power whilst continually rattling the tin cup.

My friends, we, the nation, made up of us, the citizens of the United States of America, are broke. And we simply can't afford any more new spending sprees by Democrats. OR Republicans. Existing spending programs must be gutted, and our standard of living will plummet.

It's over.

Do you think our new overlords will let us keep our air conditionings?

California's head-up-ass State Government decides to drill to balance their budget. Large cuts to health programs...what, don't they understand that health care can be paid for by simply printing new monies?

Schwarzenegger's initial proposal to eliminate health and welfare programs outright was rebuffed by Democrats, but those programs - In Home Support Services, CalWorks and Healthy Families - face deep cuts as well.

The deal also includes Schwarzenegger's earlier proposal that would allow offshore oil drilling near Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 6 miles from the Santa Barbara County shoreline, generating about $100 million a year in new royalties for the state.

I told 'em so.

Oh, and ScribeFire, blow me.

There. Fixed it for them.

Without raising taxes. Without letting crooks out of jail early.


What about "BROKE" do you not understand?

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