Obama budget plan in trouble in Senate

Ed Morrissey (the blogger formerly known as Captain Ed) is a strictly partisan Republican, but his item at Hot Air reporting that Sen. Gregg told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to his face that his budget projections were false, and that Geithner and President Obama have lost credibility on both sides of the aisle, and that senators of both parties are vocally unhappy with the Obama budget proposal, is very encouraging.

Update: Morrissey’s source for Gregg’s dressing down of Geithner and the administration is MSNBC. Even better.

By the way, I have increasing difficulty using the words, “President Obama,” to designate the person currently occupying the White House, as I regard him as the presidential equivalent of an illegal alien, a criminal alien, and an enemy alien all rolled into one. But for the sake of politeness and civility it’s better to use the proper form, at least occasionally.

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Paul Nachman writes:

I, of course, refer to him strictly as “Wonderboy.” His actual name will not escape my lips.

Two other points:

1. I’m offended, in principle, that an American president would ever have a name like his. In other words, even if I regarded Wonderboy as good for the country, I’d be offended by his name, both first name and last name.

2. Tancredo gave an excellent speech here last Saturday night to the Gallatin County Republicans’ Lincoln-Reagan annual dinner. (Phyllis Schlafly had been the intended speaker, but she broke her hip a few weeks earlier.)

Tancredo was in fine form. He didn’t talk much about immigration. His brush was much broader than that. He talked about how he’d disliked Clinton [“a bum”], “but this guy takes the cake. He’s the most dangerous guy we’ve had as President in my life and probably in the country’s history.”

“This guy is America’s Hugo Chavez, the most dangerous person to ever occupy the office.”

“[Wonderboy] is an ideologue. He has Congress and maybe 60% of the public still with him. He’s the head of a cult .. a cult figure, different from a usual politician.”

Tancredo had been in DC recently, and he said there were murals of Wonderboy on buildings all over NE Washington. It reminded him of trips with high school students Tancredo and his wife had led to Russia. Even Tancredo’s ticket on the DC Metro had a picture of Wonderboy on it.

I had a bit of one-on-one time with Tancredo both before and after the event. Right after his speech, I asked him where he thought Wonderboy was born. He instantly replied “Kenya! Why should I disbelieve his family?” I asked if this statement or any of his speech was off-the-record, and he said, no way, quote me as you like.

(Direct quotes above are approximate.)

LA replies:

“I’m offended, in principle, that an American president would ever have a name like his. In other words, even if I regarded Wonderboy as good for the country, I’d be offended by his name, both first name and last name.”

Why? I’d like to hear your reasons.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 14, 2009 04:49 PM | Send