Rove to Obama: Quit Peeing on America!
“In the face of our enormous economic challenges, top White House aides decided to pee on Mr. Limbaugh’s leg.” - Karl Rove
I was done talking aboot Rush Limbaugh, and thought the whole thing was silly anyways. However, I just can’t say no to a Karl Rove column, especially a Karl Rove column with lines like that. That’s why Rove is my hero, right up there with Magneto, Cobra Commander, and UFC president Dana White.
It’s the usual fair. The Obama Campaign White House decided to attack a critic of theirs to distract people from real issues…kind of like how Mr. Rove’s old boss used to do, which is why I keep saying Barack Obama is more of the same as George Bush.
Everyone has their own facts and figures of what our attention is trying to be drawn away from. These are some of the ones that Rove chose…
Not even Team Obama can forestall unpleasant reality. And among those America now faces is Mr. Obama adding $3.2 trillion to the national debt in his first 20 months and 11 days in office, eclipsing the $2.9 trillion added during the Bush presidency’s entire eight years.
Another reality is that Mr. Obama’s fiscal house is built on gimmicks. For example, it assumes the cost of the surge in Iraq will extend for a decade. This brazenly dishonest trick was done to create phony savings down the line.
Mr. Obama’s budget downplays some programs’ true cost. For example, his vaunted new college access program is funded for five years and then disappears (on paper); the children’s health insurance program drops (on paper) from $12.4 billion in 2013 to $700 million the next year. Neither will happen; the costs of both will be much higher and so will the deficits.
Mr. Obama’s budget also assumes the economy declines 41% less this year and grows 52% more next year and 38% more the year after than is estimated by the Blue Chip consensus (a collection of estimates by leading economists traditionally used by federal budget crunchers). If Mr. Obama used the consensus forecasts for growth rather than his own rosy scenarios, his budget would be $758 billion more in the red over the next five years.
Karl in charge of our days and out nights. That’s why I want Karl in charge of me!
UPDATE: They’ve been distracted…
UPDATE DEUX: Oooh, Cheney is involved now…
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you left out the best lyric for this– “Karl in charge of our wrongs and our rights… ”
I want, I want Karl in charge of me!