Obama to Hold 'Fiscal Responsibility Summit'... So Who's Gonna Teach HIM?
Just days before he took the oath of office, Obama told reporters that he wanted to clean up the budget process and make sure government didn't spend wildly while he helmed the ship of state.
Obama has pushed for and is about to sign the biggest spending bill in American history. Worse, he has taken no part in the creation of this bill while Congress has larded this "crisis" legislation with every manner of pork that can be imagined. Never has there been a bill more stuffed with needless spending and Obama didn't raise his voice once while Congress wallowed in pork barrel proposals.
Yet, Obama thinks he is the one to lead a "fiscal responsibility summit"? It gives rise to the question, who's going to teach him ahead of this summit what "fiscal responsibility" even means?
This weekend, the administration made like budget hawks.
"Along those lines, White House budget director Peter R. Orszag has committed to instituting tougher budget-discipline rules - once the economy turns around. Those include a mandate that any "nonemergency" spending increases be offset by equal spending cuts or tax increases."
This is all well and good and nearly every president makes the claim that they will insist on spending cuts. Of course, what the administration, any administration, does not tell the people is that Congress controls spending, not the White House. The only way a president can affect the budget is by leadership and leadership is exactly what Obama did not exemplify during the creation of this porkulus bill.
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