Posted by
Anthony Rizzuto on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:07:44 PM
"Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that “the status quo is not acceptable,” even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork. Obama spinners insist it was “a leftover budget. This is the first pork-filled budget from a new president who promised to go through the budget “line by line” and cut pork. Given how angry Americans are, watching their future go up in smoke, the bloated bill counts as this year’s business." Can anyone reading guess who wrote the previous paragraph? Sean Hannity? Rush Limbaugh? Glenn Beck? No, believe it or not Ripley, those harsh words of criticism are hot off the fingers of no less than Maureen Dowd, former chief Bush basher for the NY Times. Many wondered how long it would take for the avalanche to begin, we now have the answer, less than two months. What is amazing is that Bill Clinton got away with far more than the supposed Messiah before he was called on the carpet by those who supported him. With moderate Republicans calling him on the carpet and moderates in his own party and liberals in the media now joining in, this may prove to be the shortest Presidential honeymoon in history. Conservatives living in districts controlled by democrats, particularly districts that were until recently Republican, would be wise to make use of their computers and telephones to make their voices heard. Let them know that if they support this "pork filled budget" to use Ms. Dowd's words and the proposed tax increases, they too will be collecting unemployment in the very near future.