Another Commission, Another Delay Tactic

Remember the Campaign and all those promises:

• 10/7/08, “I want to go line by line through every item n the Federal budget and eliminate programs that don’t work….

• 10/15/08, “We’ve been living beyond our means and were going to have to make some adjustments. Now what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut.”

• 03/08, “We can no longer accept a process that doles out EARMARKS based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project.”

• To the thrill of technology and transparency advocates, candidate Obama promised sunlight before signing: "As president," his campaign website said, "Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."

Well, so much for “taking the helm of the ship”. Now the President has decided to “outsource” the attack on spending and has formed a Commission.

I can hear it now, on mainstream media and from the “lips of liberals”; “The President is attacking the Spending problem – he has formed a Commission! Many of remember the old quote, “a committee/commission is a group of people who individually were unable to get anything done but get together where they collectively decide that nothing can be done”. (Sounds like Congress.) The Commission is called, “The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform”.

With 22 Cabinet Heads, 38 Czars and Rambo's massive "Executive Office of the President" AND the 545 members of Congress that creates all spending Bills, you would think that they already had enough people to attack spending, right?  Wrong, these are politicians, they don't reduce spending.  They don't even read the bills so they are not going to review the budget Line by Line!

Do you think the Commission will report its findings before the mid-term elections in November?

If they have the nerve to recommend major cuts do you think Obama would aggressively pursue them? Do you think the Congress would support them?

Not likely! I think we all know that the Commission is nothing but another Political delay tactic to make it look like something is being done but will fade away after the mid-term elections.

Disengenuous politics is alive and well in Washington!

If they won't attack the Deficit Spending then we need to attack them by going to the polls in November and issuing lots of Pink Slips!