Maybe 5 per cent of Americans understand that there were no budget cuts. In the first place, there are no budgets in place even for the new fiscal year beginning in 59 days. Those "saved" billions and trillions are reductions in notional dreams of what might be budgeted -- a little or a lot -- beginning Oct. 1, 2011 and extending into the hazy decade of the 2020s.
If you share Barney Franks' vision, the slashes are more horrible than they sound. Barney would in a heartbeat set up a new cabinet department authorized to expend unlimited sums to define and protect the rights of transgendered Americans. His dream budget also envisions free ice cream at Acorn rallies.
If you share a bed with Michele Bachmann, you dream of a federal budget of zero, not counting special appropriations for hiring shamanshrinks to help homosexuals pray away the gay. (Stop shuddering, fellows. I meant only metaphorical nearness on an imaginary Posturerpedic.)
The Obama dream budget is the amount necessary to buy -- with your money and mine -- 270 electoral votes.
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That's what we're cutting, something -- not much -- from a mysterious "n." So if you follow the upcoming super committee follies with a feeling that the Tremendous Twelve haven't the faintest clue about what they're doing -- other than capturing air time and ink -- rest assured that your logical facilities are intact.
If you share Barney Franks' vision, the slashes are more horrible than they sound. Barney would in a heartbeat set up a new cabinet department authorized to expend unlimited sums to define and protect the rights of transgendered Americans. His dream budget also envisions free ice cream at Acorn rallies.
If you share a bed with Michele Bachmann, you dream of a federal budget of zero, not counting special appropriations for hiring shamanshrinks to help homosexuals pray away the gay. (Stop shuddering, fellows. I meant only metaphorical nearness on an imaginary Posturerpedic.)
The Obama dream budget is the amount necessary to buy -- with your money and mine -- 270 electoral votes.
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That's what we're cutting, something -- not much -- from a mysterious "n." So if you follow the upcoming super committee follies with a feeling that the Tremendous Twelve haven't the faintest clue about what they're doing -- other than capturing air time and ink -- rest assured that your logical facilities are intact.
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If you share a bed with Michele Bachmann,...
It's quarter to seven in the blessed AM, and now I've got that picture in my head. Thank you. Very. Much.
Air-time circuses - they are stealing oxygen and bleeding ink.
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