Let’s hope Peter Orszag is telling the truth …
First of all, we can’t tolerate any additional wasted taxpayer money up in Washington D.C. right now, as the town is suddenly swimming with trillions of dollars in fresh red ink.
More importantly, though, if Orszag’s nose gets any bigger there may not be room for anything else on the East Coast.
Seriously, let’s hope this guy never takes up cocaine, because if he does it’s going to take both the Medellin and Cali cartels peak 1980s output to feed his habit.
Anyway, Barack Obama’s budget director took to a haughtily-titled CNN talk show this morning to promise that Obama would get around to cutting pork barrel spending “next year.”
From CNN:
“[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place,” Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN’s “State of the Union with John King.”
He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, which it inherited from the previous administration. The bill would keep the government running through 2009.
“This is like your relief pitcher coming into the ninth inning and wanting to redo the whole game,” Orszag said. “Next year we’re going to be the starting pitcher, and the game’s going to be completely different.”
First of all, don’t use sports metaphors, moron. You automatically lose half of the female population.
Second of all, since when did Obama’s hard-charging commitment to “change” become limited by the political difficulty in accomplishing it?
Or in this case the “perceived difficulty” – which Obama’s people are intentionally exaggerating because they don’t want to (and aren’t going to) cut a dime of this money.
Nearly $8 billion in earmarks have been identified by taxpayer advocates, meaning that they’ve been specifically singled out Obama – who vowed on the campaign trail to “go line by line” in the budget and get rid of them.
That’s right, “line by line.”
Instead of keeping a promise, though, the Obama administration has decided to make another one (“next year”) and feed us a lame sports metaphor that unintentionally reinforces its leader’s cowardice.
How so?
Well, the last time we checked the ninth inning was precisely when you “changed the game.”
Ask these guys …
