Obstruction over spending cuts a critical issue for White House in 2012

How many times did you hear socialist-progressives (so-progs) call Republicans ‘obstructionists’ when Democrats held absolute power over all three branches of the US government? Correct answer: too many times to count.

Voters wised up and restored some balance to Washington during the November midterm elections. Republicans gained control of the US House after including a major commitment in speeches across the land—to cut federal spending. There have been some small gains. But furor has arisen among the so-progs who react to talk of spending cuts in decibels a Highlands banshee would be proud of.

That furor can take an ugly turn. For instance during a March fundraiser Vice-President Joe Biden compared Republicans to rape apologists. Biden said:

“When a woman got raped, blame her because she was wearing a skirt too short, she looked the wrong way or she wasn't home in time to make the dinner,” Biden said.

“We've gotten by that,” he said. “But it's amazing how these Republicans, the right wing of this party – whose philosophy threw us into this God-awful hole we’re in, gave us the tremendous deficit we’ve inherited – that they’re  now using, now attempting to use, the very economic condition they have created to blame the victim – whether it’s organized labor or ordinary middle-class working men and women. It's bizarre. It's bizarre.”[The Hill]

Biden apparently has amnesia when it comes to this “God-awful hole we’re in.” Democrats are as vested in that “tremendous deficit” as anyone, even more than Republicans depending on your ideas about the role of centralized government.

As for implying spending cuts have anything to do with rape, it's bizarre, it's bizarre.

Meanwhile tea party supporters are holding the GOP to the cut-spending pledge. CBS News said the national group Tea Party Patriots called for a rally on March 31. In Jacksonville (Fla.), one of the largest cities in the nation land-wise, a blog entry at First Coast Tea Party posited, “First it was $100B in cuts, then $61B. How low will they go?”

Many of us are frustrated over glaring opportunities—not filling vacant positions in non-vital federal agencies, reducing the federal workforce by attrition (which costs no one a job since the job is already vacant), completely eliminating whimsical spending like the $1,000,000 the State Dept. will spend to send community artists to other countries in some sort of feel-good project. It goes without saying better oversight on all spending, with a special emphasis on entitlements, is due. What about fraud in the Child Tax Credit? The US Treasury repeatedly warned Democrats about more than $1.5 billion in suspect refunds on returns filed by those in the country without legal documents.

Fact is both our president and Democrats in the Senate will stymie spending cuts as much as possible. Democrats embrace an ideology with big government as the centerpiece. Nothing meaningful will be accomplished on spending as long as the current makeup of Washington power stays static.

This power structure is a critical issue for the White House in 2012, and there is only one solution. Replace a president whose ideology is tied to big spending with a president who is a fiscal conservative.

If you believe that will be easy, bear in mind many Americans have little time for analyzing what the people they vote for actually do. Furthermore, there is a dearth of passion for most GOP frontrunner presidential hopefuls. The grassroots certainly will not tolerate a repeat of 2008.

After all, if there’s little difference in the party platforms, will it matter who we vote for?

In truth the future of the nation rests on the person Americans select as commander-in-chief in 2012. That message alone is critically important for the electorate to hear.

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(Commentary by Kay B. Day/March 25, 2011)

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