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If Obama has such a marvelous temperament, why can’t he make & advocate “tough choices” on entitlement reform?

March 18, 2011 by B. Daniel Blatt

When the House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan releases the Republican budget it, unlike that the president prepared, “will deal with entitlements.”

Despite the president’s decision to punt on this matter, even the Senate Democratic leader agrees that entitlements account for the better part of our budget as the indispensable Jennifer Rubin reminds us:

Although the White House has given the suggestion of including taxes and entitlements in the 2011 budget discussions the back of the hand, Reid was at it again: “‘We can’t balance the budget with 12 percent of the budget,’ he said, referring to the size of the non-defense discretionary budget. Reid said that he’s urging Boehner to expand the talks beyond the discretionary budget and include entitlements and revenues.”

Even the president still acknowledges that small cuts hither, thither and yon won’t solve our budget problem, that we need “to have a conversation after we get the short-term budget done about how do we really tackle the problem in a comprehensive way“.  And while he says we need to have that discusion, he hasn’t provided a framework  for doing so.

Now, he was billed in the campaign as having such a marvelous temperament.  Don’t you think such a fellow might be able both to present a budget making those “tough choices” his budget director promised and to explain why he made them to the American people?

Filed Under: Big Government Follies

Comments

  1. Kitty says

    March 18, 2011 at 10:48 pm - March 18, 2011

    Reading Obama is like trying to pick up mercury. Is he malevolent or feckless? Knowing or over his head? Because we can’t divine his thought process we may never know his motivations or objectives. But so far everything he has done has weakened and divided our country, to say nothing of increasing our indebtedness.

  2. Sebastian Shaw says

    March 19, 2011 at 10:56 am - March 19, 2011

    Obama wants to remain a tabula rasa, a blank slate or everything to everyone; however, he has a visible record that he cannot ignore. The two cannot coexist together. Although, Obama will try to resurrect his 2008 campaign for 2012 with another empty sloga: Winning The Future. WTF is right, but it’s not winning the future.

  3. Louise B says

    March 19, 2011 at 11:33 am - March 19, 2011

    When Sarah Palin agreed with President Obama about the WTF slogan for his campaign, I thought it was brilliantly funny.

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