We Must Get Our Deficit Under Control Unless That Means Spending Cuts!

President Barack Obama boldly came out against balanced budgets, spending cuts and spending caps today. The White House announced today that he would veto the House's proposed cut, cap and balance legislation if it passed. It was very bold of the President to finally announce his official position in favor of bankrupting the country. In all honesty, he had flirted with the position early on by proposing a budget earlier this year that actually increased the deficit. This while attacking the Paul Ryan budget and threatening this veto all while complaining that the Republicans won't produce a workable plan.

So as our petulant President pouts in pressers pleading for partisans to be pliant, he gets out ahead of the curve in threatening to block legislation that would achieve the goal he supposedly has (or had) of deficit reduction and keeping the government running. The statement is all the stronger in that it was unnecessary. There is no way the Democrats would let the plan get passed the Senate. Of course, he may be providing political cover for Democrats who may feel they need to vote for the legislation to get re-elected. In any case, the demagogue-in-chief apparently doesn't feel all that worried about those social security recipients and veteran's (who from everything I've seen could easily continue to be paid during a government shutdown) who he has spent all his time scaring with the shut down bogeyman. The day he is out of the White House will be one of the happiest of my life. I may actually cry.