Bloodthirsty Liberal

Sound like some people wouldn’t give a plug nickel for President Obama’s budget slashing:

Barack Obama announced that he will snip a whopping one-half of one percent of the $3.4 trillion budget. Knock me over with a feather.

Which best symbolizes Obama’s budget-cutting tools?

1) Plastic knife:

2) Spork:

3) Broken scissors:

4) Toy chainsaw:

5) One more nominee via Brian Faughnan…Baby nail clippers:

Nasal hair trimmers?

Heck, even the normally adulatory AP is unimpressed:

President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday to eliminate or trim 121 federal programs for a savings of $17 billion in the coming budget year. Many of the proposed cuts have already been rejected by Obama’s allies in Congress, including some programs that his predecessor, President George W. Bush, repeatedly sought to end.

Despite the relatively modest nature of the cuts, “none of this will be easy” amid the continuing deep economic slump, Obama said.

He didn’t say that with a straight face, did he? Pat Paulsen couldn’t have kept it together so well. Anyhow, it’s all grandstanding: not even President Caesar has the power of the purse. This PR stunt literally isn’t worth one red cent.

President Obama is like the dieter who washes down the foot-long steak and cheese with a Tab and wonders why he can’t lose weight. No, amend that. We are, if we believe anything this man says.

In keeping with food, remember the scene in Goodfellas when the crew is preparing a meal in prison, slicing the garlic paper thin?

This is how Obama is “hacking” the federal budget:

PS: Where he does have power, in his own Labor Department, President Obama has found a rich vein of fat to cut:

[B]uried in the budget documents released by the White House today is a 9 percent cut in the unit of the Department of Labor that is in charge of regulating unions.

Under the leadership of Elaine Chao during the Bush administration, the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards took its job of policing unions seriously. Its actions led to 929 convictions of corrupt union officials and to the recovery of more than $93 million on behalf of union members. Yet the Obama administration has proposed slashing its budget from $45 million in 2009 to $41 million in 2010, citing an insufficient “workload” for the office.