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calendar   Wednesday - April 13, 2011

How much will it be tomorrow?

Aww CRAP





“We’re going to cut $100 billion off the budget! That’s our Pledge To America!” Wasn’t that the hue and cry?

Then it was $60 billion.

Then we went through 2 solid weeks of shenanigans on the Hill, and they came away with $38.5 billion.

And today we learn that somebody was fapping the numbers, because the real bottom line is that they only actually cut $14.7 billion. And some of that money was for border security efforts.

The meat of the spending deal struck between the two parties late Friday night was revealed in a legislative omnibus released early Tuesday morning. The specifics show that finding nearly $40 billion in cuts during the 2011 fiscal year required clever accounting and, for the White House, a willingness to concede on rhetoric to find gains on substance.

For example, the final cuts in the deal are advertised as $38.5 billion less than was appropriated in 2010, but after removing rescissions, cuts to reserve funds, and reductions in mandatory spending programs, discretionary spending will be reduced only by $14.7 billion.

White House officials said throughout the process that the composition of the cuts was more important than the top-line number, and that including mandatory cuts allowed that top line to grow while limiting the immediate impact of the cuts.

The move also keeps the 2011 discretionary baseline slightly higher, a terrain advantage for the Democrats heading into the 2012 spending process.

Read it and weep. If Present is President without the ID, then it looks to me like John Boehner isn’t worth his “eh”.

“We’re going to overturn Obamacare.” Really? Really truly?

Health care reform, too, will be implemented, though now under the eyes of several Republican-imposed audits and studies. The deal does cut $2.5 billion, nearly half the funding, from an effort to set up health care co-ops that was opposed by the insurance industry, and eliminates another policy, opposed by both corporations and labor unions, that allowed individuals to use the funding from employer-provided health care benefits to shop for insurance on the individual market.

Good news, except that Obamacare was pretty much written by the insurance companies to being with. So defunding the part that they don’t like is just playing into their hands even more. And the second policy mentioned there takes away your freedom of choice. Of course the unions opposed that; they don’t want you to have any.

Wow. Such a victory. I fully expect that by this time tomorrow another look at the numbers will show that Bo-eh-ner actually agreed to a spending increase; he got X cuts in departments A, B, and C at the cost of 3X increases in departments O, F, U. Which is what it looks like the Obamunists did to him. Are we to expect another boo-hoo video Johnny boy?

The president also garnered an additional $700 million in spending for his competitive education funding program, “Race to The Top,” and though it includes new audits of the consumer protection agency created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul, it also raises funds to implement reforms at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.

Go read “Race to the Top” and see if they’re actually talking about anything speed related. Or even academic, since the winning states won’t have to ability to target even half the awarded funds. 50+% of them are pre-mandated to certain LEA (local education agencies).  And will you ever be able to trust anything with the Dodd-Frank imprimatur on it? I won’t. This is starting to look more like a shellacking than a victory.


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