Methinks that Michelle Obama must be lacing the organic vegetables at the White House with some illegal narcotic. Either that or Obama’s smoking addiction goes way beyond cigarettes.
How else to explain his attempt to persuade us that he and our first President are like brothers? He’s just a habitual liar, you say? Well, I guess there’s that.
During his televised address in the Rose Garden yesterday, Obama actually justified his blowout government spending palooza by quoting none other than George Washington.
Said the Messiah, “It’s always more popular to promise the moon and leave the bill for after the next election or the election after that. That’s been true since our founding. George Washington grappled with this problem. He said, ‘Towards the payment of debts, there must be revenue, that to have revenue there must be taxes, [and] no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.’ He understood that dealing with the debt is—these are his words—‘always a choice of difficulties.’ ”
For Obama to pull the “Hey, George Washington loved taxes too” card is almost comical. Almost, because there’s really nothing funny about the nation’s President being this unlearned about American history. Clearly Washington and his compatriots understood that taxation was needed to fund programs, but to justify the level of taxation that Obama and his minions advocate today to feed the ever-growing beast that is our federal government falls squarely outside of the structural limits of what was intended.
Don’t believe me? Just read a little something—something called the U.S. Constitution—to see exactly what the government was designed to do. A scandalous loan to Solyndra isn’t an enumerated power, FYI.
While the fact remains that while Americans are growing weary of BHO’s infatuation with green jobs and shovel-ready projects, do they have the stomach for the large-scale cuts that are needed in order to mitigate a national debt exploding past $14 trillion, and actually restore constitutional fidelity to Washington, D.C?
A lot of departments and agencies would have to get axed or severely restructured.
That depends, says freshman Sen. Mike Lee. “I don’t think the public necessarily has an appetite for saying let's slash this department and that one,” he told HUMAN EVENTS. “The American people understand that there are good people in every department of government.”
He went on to say that Americans do understand that the government can’t support every area of life. Something’s gotta give.
“So the question isn’t, ‘Do we want to slash entire departments just for the sake of doing it?’ It’s, ‘What do we need to cut in order protect those things that only the federal government can do?’ ”
Here’s the last installment of our exclusive interview with the Utah senator, where he also gives the skinny on what you can expect in the Senate these next few months.
Gird your loins, people!
In other news, Obama says that his huge tax hike on job producers is basic arithmetic. 'Do the math,' he implored Congress. But can he? How about releasing those college transcripts, champ.
