Okay, so this great attempt – one more time – at bi-partisanship in Washington which began Friday will end today.
The President will release today his budget for 2011, a hefty little $3.8 trillion document with a running deficit of $1.3 trillion.
What fun!
After crashing the Congressional GOP retreat on Friday and asking them politely – sorta – to cut it out and try to be reasonable for a change and all the Republicans then mobbing the President to get his autograph – because he’s a rock star – look for them today to lash out at the budget proposals as a Bolshevik plot!
“We gotta close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality,” said the President on Friday.
And while the President’s budget for 2011 will close the gap a little on the deficit ($1.6 trillion to $1.3 trillion) look for the rhetoric-to-reality gap today to widen to Grand Canyon proportions.
Yea…that’s more fun: to demonize the other side so much it’ll make it tough to get things done.
That’s the kind of government we like!
No matter that most of the $1.6 trillion budget deficit in the current year is left over from the previous 8 years of Bush & Company and the 2011 deficit will be lower than the deficit of the current year, this gives partisans in Washington something really spectacular over which to fight…and do nothing…and bore us all to death!
Meanwhile, flights of the critically sick and injured from Haiti to Florida and other states will resume today after Florida Gov. Charlie Crist balked last week and forced a temporary halt to the emergency flights.
Crist asked the appropriate question in a tragedy of this magnitude: “Hey, who’s gonna pay for all this?” And answered for all Floridians, “we ain’t.”
Nice. Maybe next time a massive hurricane hits Florida and Floridians are suffering without the basic necessities, someone will ask, “hey, who’s gonna pay for all this?”
And speaking of Haiti, a bunch of Baptists from Idaho and Texas were arrested over the weekend as they were transporting a bunch of kids over the border to the Dominican Republic. They said they were trying to get the orphaned kids back to the U.S. and to safety.
The only problem, according to plenty of press reports, is that at least half the kids still have parents in Haiti. Oops. Oh well, the LOOKED like they needed to be baptized.
Finally, can’t remember the last time Barbara Walters rushed to interview a newly-elected nekkid senator from Massachusetts. Oh wait, it might have been the last time Massachusetts had a Republican senator!
