Flashback

Obama 0-4 for 2008 townhall-debate promises.

Obama At DNC: "I Will Never Turn Medicare Into a Voucher Program"

Next Day:  HHS pilot program to send 2 million poor seniors from medicare into voucher. 

The lifespan of his promises are getting shorter and shorter.

Politifact's #1 Lie of 2011

Now Obama's  #1 talking point.

Ryan's Budget Is Radical?

Far from it.  Of course, I was raising this same point months ago.

Punching Back Twice As Hard

Democratic Presidential Adviser Erskine Bowles Addresses the Ryan Budget

"It is a sensible, straightforward, serious budget and it cut the budget deficit by $4 trillion."

Of course, in 2010, even Obama acknowledged that Ryan's Plan "is an entirely legitimate proposal."

But I suppose that was before Ryan threw granny off a cliff.

Romney-Ryan 2012

In taking the weekend off from blogging (for the first time in a long while), I failed to cover Romney's selection of his running mate: Paul Ryan.  The Wisconsin Congressman and Chair of the House Budget Committee is a bold, but brilliant choice.  By picking Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has shown that he is committed to tackling the biggest problem our nation faces, entitlement reform.  The choice the American people now face in November has never been clearer: we will either embrace fiscal reform or we will march off the fiscal cliff.  And there is perhaps no one better to explain that choice than Paul Ryan.

For more thoughts consider Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds article from USA Today and Allahpundit's thoughts over at Hot Air. 

An Abdication of Responsibility

Veronique de Rugy and Nick Gillespie:

What we’re actually witnessing — and have been for years now — is not gridlock, but the abdication of responsibility by Congress and the president for performing the most basic responsibilities of government. Despite the fiscal crisis that Washington knows will occur if it fails to deal with unsustainable spending and debt, it hasn’t managed to produce a federal budget in more than three years.

To their credit, House Republicans have drafted, voted on, and passed a budget, but they are busy now trying to worm their way out of the very spending cuts — the sequestration deal — they insisted on as a condition for raising the debt limit last summer.

One of the most egregious failures of the president’s budget was that it, as in his previous budgets, offered no serious plan to stabilize the largest entitlement programs. Instead, the president and congressional Democrats lambasted Republicans for actually addressing the problem in their budget.

That's why we need a Tea Party.

America is Becoming a Less Attractive Place to Do Business

So observes the Economist.  The principle problem?   “The US government is failing to tackle weaknesses in the business environment that are making the country a less attractive place to invest and [is] nullifying some of America’s most important competitive strengths.”  The article goes on to observe that "Without both parties’ fingerprints on a deal, no one can curb the huge entitlement programmes that grow automatically, such as Medicare and Social Security (health care and pensions for the elderly). So deficits yawn and the welfare state keeps growing, even as America’s roads crumble. That is not a recipe for dynamism."  What the Economist fails to mention, however, is that it is the Democrats, led by Barack Obama, that refuse to even entertain the idea of entitlement reform, instead preferring to demonize anyone that does.