Obama: Mr. Freeze

In his latest desperate attempt to revive an economy he knows nothing about, Bama has stolen the idea to freeze agency budgets for the next 3 years. This has sent liberals into a tailspin. Last night Rachel Maddow likened the idea to driving all the way down the football field only to punt at the 1 yard line. Rachel Maddow doesn't know very much about football; her analogy is indecipherable, unless she's suggesting that some massive amount of progress has been made as a result of last years spending binge, and now this almost insignificant freeze will undo all of that.

It's hard for any rational-thinking person to see it the way she and like-minded liberals do. What progress? The economy is still in shambles - look at the job numbers, not the stock market. Stocks are a house of cards without jobs. And nobody punts at the opponents 1 yard line, that's just a stupid thing to say. She went on to trounce Bama, who's getting no love from anyone right now, by saying he's given in to the "inane" Republican idea that less government spending can help an economy in which the only spending is by the government.

First of all, Bama's little freeze on agency budgets amounts to about 1% of the budget. I hardly think that is a substantive amount of government spending. Also, he's only talking about a freeze, not cuts. Of course to Democrats, any reduction of the annual increase in spending is a cut. Maddow doesn't understand that Republicans, or at least the conservatives, want a real reduction in government. How about putting a hard deadline on Social Security, say anyone 50 years and older is eligible, and once they're all dead SS goes away forever. Viola! I just saved taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Now what will they do with that money. Oh, probably stuff it into mattresses or burn it for heat I'm sure. See, Democrats lack the ability to follow the point to its logical conclusion. A lot of this is because they don't trust free markets because they've been conditioned to not trust the leaders of enterprise in this country. It all goes back to class warfare. I wonder now if Bama and Geitner intentinally left the door open for executive payouts from the bailout just to propogate class warfare zeal.

I, for one, am delighted with Bama's freeze. It's wildly unpopular, which hurts him politically and will make everything else he tries to do more difficult, and it is something, even if it's almost nothing. That's actually a good summation of the man himself!