by Jack
The American people are finally figuring out the cost of the Obama presidency, namely Obamacare and also thanks in large part to the recent sequester budget that brought to light many things.
Obama campaigned long and hard that a sequester budget was going to starve the children, displace police and fire, cause prisoners to get an early release and more. It was a bluff of course, but this time the republicans called him on it. This shocked dems and the White House because the big bluff has always worked before, but not this time. Finally, even the low information voter saw it for what is was and they backed sequestration and the Republicans. So, the embolden GOP stood firm, sequester went forward and none of the dire predictions happened. That is, unless there was a little White House interfernce to force the worst to happen. We saw the evidence of that too, and this only added to the public’s disenchantment with Mr. Obama and his Chicago style of politics. The polls show the strong-arm tactics failed and the result – the presidents credibility dropped sharply along with his poll numbers.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll makes clear that Obama has tumbled from the political heights he enjoyed in the first two months of the year. His approval rating now sits at 50 percent with 46 percent disapproving, a far cry from the 55 percent approve/41 percent disapprove score he enjoyed in a mid-January Post-ABC poll.
If anything, the president is a pragmatist, and he’s willing to shfit with the political winds. He saw a backlash coming and since his days of doom and gloom forecasts he’s changed his tune, trying to salvage what he could. But, it was too late and the momentum has shifted to the republicans who are bringing to light flaws in the new democrat proposed budget by Patty Murray.
Their first budget in 4 years will add nearly 1 trillion dollars in new taxes! The exposure of some of the more absurd inclusions has caused even democrat legislators to wince in shame. For example, the dems budget provides for overpayment of 5% if a contract is awarded to native Hawaiian company. The National Institutes of Health gets $1.5 million to find out why three quarters of lesbians are obese, but gay males are not. The National Science Foundation gets $250,000 to study pictures of animals in the National Geographic and the list of waste goes on into the hundreds of billions.
Nothing in this democrat proposed budget does anything to curb the waste, quite the contrary!
Despite Obama’s warnings over sequestration the federal government has advertised for nearly 2,600 new jobs in just the last week-and-a-half! This failure to cut waste, the fraudulent claims, and an attempt to keep the US in crushing debt is traced right back to Obama’s overall failure of leadership. At this point his agenda is becoming clear even to the low information voter. Obama has no interest in cutting waste, fraud and abuse in government! He has but one agenda, to transform this country to a socialist republic. This was said in his book, it was said repeatedly in his campaign speeches and it’s been carried out to it’s fullest potential by a ruinus Obamacare.
As the cost of Obama’s socialist penchant becomes clear the resentment grows against him and the democrats. Many in Congress fear a reversal of fortunes similar to what befell republicans in the mid-term elections of 1998. Patty Murray’s budget offers them no refuge. Her budget is 527 pages of vote buying pork gimmicks and outright waste coupled to a trillion dollars in new taxes.
In contrast to Murray’s budget, Paul Ryan’s budget proposal it a rock solid plan leading us to prosperity. It will shore up the dollar by reducing our debt to a near balanced budget in 10 years as it eliminates corrupt government projects and sorts out future waste.
The difference between these two parties has never been more clear. Debt, new taxes and insolvency vs prosperity and a balanced budget. It’s your choice, which do you want?