Paul Ryan Asks, Where Is Obama's Budget

Now that the crisis has passed, and boy do I use the term crisis lightly and skeptically, Congressman Paul Ryan clears up a few things.

During the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reportedly warned Republican leaders not to call his bluff by sending him a bill without tax increases. Republicans in Congress ignored this threat and passed a bill that cuts more than a dollar in spending for every dollar it increases the debt limit, without raising taxes.

Yesterday, Mr. Obama signed this bill into law. He was, as he said, bluffing.

I wondered when somebody would get around to pointing out that he was admitting he was bluffing.

Ever since they abused the budget process to jam their health-care takeover through Congress last year, the Democrats have simply done away with serious budgeting altogether. The simplest explanation—and the president's real bluff—is that they don't want to commit publicly to the kind of tax increases and health-care rationing that would be required to sustain their archaic vision of government.

Obama can not make his plan work by the numbers, and it won't, imo work to save the American people money either. I hate it, want it gone, yesterday is not soon enough for it to disappear.