Fresh from being savaged by Republicans for his proposed $3.7 trillion 2012 budget, members of his own party are deserting President Barack Obama for crafting a spending plan that does not do enough to rein in federal spending and cut the deficit. The budget also is under attack from liberals who say the burden of spending cuts has been placed on the backs of the poor.
Republicans mocked Obama's budget immediately after it was released on Monday. "The president punted on the budget, he punted on the deficit," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "That's not leadership, that's an abdication of leadership."
"In our nation's most pressing fiscal challenges, the president has abdicated his leadership role," Ryan said. "When his own commission put forward a set of fundamental entitlement and tax reforms . . . he ignored them."
It seems to me that the budget cuts he outlined, he knew would never be passed because they were the feel good policies of his party. It has all been an act just like everything else he has done.
