Not Getting Excited About This At All

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday proposes a package of tax increases and cuts from projected spending totaling nearly $3.1 trillion over 10 years to slow down soaring federal budget deficits.

His plan, which he'll detail in a Rose Garden address, will call for $1.5 trillion in tax increases over the decade starting in 2013, most of them on incomes above $200,000.

He'll also propose $580 billion in cuts in projected federal spending. And he'll say his plan should count $1 trillion in savings from the planned withdrawal of troops from Irag and Afghanistan.

I'm not paying any attention, for I know this means nothing. The Obama Administration has more reverse gears in its transmission than does an Italian Army tank. The GOP only has to mildly utter: "I say, sport, we don't like that at all." and this Administration will tear up whatever it wrote down.

Which leads me to why I'm not paying much attention to the upcoming presidential race. At this point, the GOP seems to be mulling over Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.

Romney's claim to business expertise is that his group took over companies, ran them into the ground by stripping assets, declaring bankruptcy, firing all of the American workers and then taking the jobs offshore. Romney's political track record is of a man who will say and do anything to get elected. If euthanizing the elderly became popular, you'd see Romney shooting his mother.


Perry is a man who is aggressively ignorant and proud of it.* He is rather proud of the fact that he was a bad student and his attitude seems to be one of someone who appears to believe that "book larnin' ain't worth t' trouble". If anything, he comes across as the sort of swaggering stupid bully that was exemplified by George W. Bush, only Perry has ramped it up by a couple orders of magnitude.

For all the disdain and near hatred that Perry has expressed for the Federal government, one wonders why he would even want to be president. Remember that he spent `09 and `10 bleating about the joys of seceding from the Union. A Perry presidency would be like electing a convicted child rapist to the presidency of a school board.

And opposing those two worthies is the sitting president, whose negotiating style is to back down faster than Neville Chamberlain. I have no clue what Obama believes in, for whatever it is, he sure doesn't hold to them.

So there we have it: Two weasels and a moron. Is it any wonder that I'm not finding it interesting to
write about presidential politics these days?

UPDATE:  A couple of captioned photos from Comedy Central's Indecision Forever that explain things:

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* Perry is even prouder of being uneducated than is Sarah Palin, if that is at all possible.