The gonads on this doof.

“President Barack Obama opened Monday’s economic summit by taking aim at the “casual dishonesty” of Bush administration budgets Monday, saying he’ll abandon accounting “tricks” used to hide the ballooning deficit and pledging to cut a $1.3 trillion federal shortfall in half during his first term.”

Do tell? How Barry can make that claim after pushing through a 1100 page – mostly handwritten – phonebook that nobody read and yet approved, he has a lot to talk about “tricks”.

Over at American Spectator Philip Klein writes about Obama’s plan to balance the budget:

“At first glance, it’s difficult to see how his math adds up. The Obama administration expects to reduce the deficit by allowing Bush tax cuts to expire on wealthier Americans and saving money in Iraq and Afghanistan. But according to a Tax Policy Center analysis (a group whose work was frequently cited by the Obama campaign during the election), Obama would only be generating $68 billion in additional revenue by 2013 compared to maintaing all of the Bush tax cuts. Also, in FY 2008, the entire cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was $188 billion. In other words, even if we reduce our presence in both countries to zero and roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy, it doesn’t get the deficit to under $1 trillion under the most charitable of assumptions.”

As an ex-Government budget guy in the military I can tell you that there are all kinds of ways to present numbers – either to the positive or the negative. But from what we’ve seen of Obama’s budget plans and plans to cut down the deficit, you would have to be Hoodini to have those numbers come close to being reality.

So who is zooming who?

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