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Well, that was quick.  It only took 4 days, or 96 hours or so, for Obama to waffle on his budget promises from the State of the Union.

The White House on Monday will propose a 2011 budget…that is a 6% increase over 2010.

The proposal will include $25 billion for struggling states and provide funding increases for programs at the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Census Bureau.  It will also provide more funds for the military, but spending at NASA, the Army Corps of Engineers and certain other agencies will be kept at $447 billion annually through 2013.  That will lead to a savings of $10 billion in the coming fiscal year.  In other words, all of Mr. Obama’s talk of budget savings amounts to $10 billion…but his overall discretionary spending is going to increase by $25 billion in the same year.

Wow.

It was always a joke.  Republicans heartily laughed at it in the House Chamber of Wednesday when Obama said it.  Democrats didn’t get the joke, obviously.  The entire proposal is a farce.  Now, forget that it is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the country’s budget deficit.  Even worse, now, is that it isn’t even a drop in the bucket.  It is nonexistent.

As Gateway Pundit points out, is there any surprise that the public doesn’t believe anything he says any more?  A Rasmussen poll out late this week shows that the public has lost faith in almost all of the President’s promises or supposed past accomplishments.  For example, 53% don’t believe that the country received tax cuts, as Obama stated.  Only 35% of people believe Obama when he says the economy is pulling out of recession. And a meager 9% thought that Obama’s budget freeze would have any effect; and after this announcement, that number should go to zero.

Obama, since the beginning of his presidential campaign, continues to overpromise on everything:  the budget, the economy, foreign affairs.   Obama talked about speaking truth to power; but now that he is in power, he refuses to speak the truth.  And the public’s support is slowly waning from a President that had astronomical and historic levels of support just one year ago.

If Obama has any hope of recovering, he must re-establish some level of trust in the American people.  Bill Clinton did that by working with Republicans.  George W. Bush failed in that after Hurricane Katrina (whether or not it was his fault).  Obama seems to be following the latter example more than the former.
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