But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once.
David Brooks, via Tom Maquire, Just One Minute.
Brook is far from our favorite conservative, but Brooks ire is an indication of how far the one has fallen. Rember during the debate, Obama asked which one three programs he would cut and he indicated none. BO has seeming unlimited desire to spend other people’s money and no ability, or desire, to develope priorities.
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