Obama Is A Closet Republican?

Is Obama Karl Rove's puppet? Who knew?

The New York Times has an editorial, entitled "Beyond Reason on the Budget", excoriating the irresponsible Republicans in the House for draconian cuts to the holy budget. As the editors say "these are the wrong cuts, to the wrong programs, at the wrong time... The new list...promises to be one of the most irresponsible budget documents ever issued by a House majority." I do agree with their final sentence: the "quality of the nation’s civic life is at stake", altho they may not like my reasons.

One of the commenters says:

If Obama were not a closet Republican, he could fight this and come out ahead — the Republicans would look like the fools they are if he forced them to shut down the government. Instead, he'll go along with their chicanery, they will come out looking great, he'll come out looking weak and like a traitor to his base, and the American people will come up short, way short.

Next time, let's elect a Democratic president.

Obama: a regular Tea Party kind of guy, clinging bitterly to his religion and his guns.

The Unholy List of proposed budget cuts which are the wrong cuts, to the wrong programs, at the wrong time include:

High Speed Rail: $1,000,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide transportation?
Family Planning: $327,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide family planning?
Agriculture Research: $246,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide research for private, profit seeking industry?
Amtrak: $224,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide transportation?
Farm Service Agency: $201,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide welfare for private, profit seeking corporations?
Nuclear Energy: $169,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide welfare to private, profit seeking corporations?
Fossil Energy Research: $31,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide welfare to private, profit seeking corporations?
National Endowment for the Arts: $6,000,000. What authorized the Federal Gov't to provide puppet strings for the arts? Better to live free in a garret than dance to their political masters' tunes. So much for transgressiveness in the arts.

The list goes on, as well it should. Even our closet Republican in the Oval Office apparently recognizes that.