GOP Mocks Obama

Cuts are needed and the Republicans are making a stand.

Republicans on Tuesday disparaged President Barack Obama's proposed $3.7 trillion budget for next year for taking a pass on tackling long-term deficits by not calling for structural changes in big-ticket entitlement programs for the elderly.


"In our nation's most pressing fiscal challenges, the president has abdicated his leadership role," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "When his own commission put forward a set of fundamental entitlement and tax reforms ... he ignored them."

Obama told a news conference that the budget he sent Congress will help meet his goal of cutting the deficit in half by the end of his first term. He said he looked forward to negotiations with Republicans in coming months on how to fix Social Security and Medicare.

"This is not a matter of, `you go first, I go first,' " he said. "It's a matter of everybody having a serious conversation about where we want to go and then ultimately getting in that boat at the same time so it doesn't tip over."

House Republicans, meanwhile were eager to launch a weeklong debate on their own package of deep cuts in domestic spending for the current fiscal year.

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I guess we will have to wait and see if this is just another "show" put on by RINO's. They always talk a good talk but, have a tendency to expand government even more.

Obama Seeks Money for Nuclear Weapons Work

Not that I have a problem with Obama trying to do more to protect us, I just find it odd that this is something he's doing when he seems to do a lot of lecturing in his speeches about disarming.

President Barack Obama is seeking increased funding for nuclear weapons research and security programs next year, even as his administration promotes nonproliferation and has pledged to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear arms.

I guess a few things could be happening here. One, he could be starting to realize that a nation needs to protect itself and, that we do have enemies we cannot negotiate with or, he's planning on dominating the world or, I don't know.

Greg Mello, director of the nuclear watchdog Los Alamos Study Group, said budgets for NNSA and DOE have increased in recent years, but the nation "hasn't seen any increase in weapons activities like this since the early years of Ronald Reagan."

Seriously, I suppose I should applaud him, and I would, it's just that I don't trust him. I don't like his character. I don't like the people he surrounds himself with. He lacks integrity.


He called the budget "a complete surrender to Senate Republicans," who have argued that stockpile reductions must be accompanied by a modernized nuclear weapons complex.

I could be wrong, this just smells fishy to me. 

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