Arsonists Concerned About House They Set On Fire

According to the Washington Times, the geniuses in the Obama administration are now starting to sweat over the size of the deficit.

The White House is beginning to send strong signals that it recognizes the $1.4 trillion budget deficit is a looming political problem that needs to be addressed, even as President Obama reminds Americans that the country's fiscal crisis originated with the Bush administration and will not be resolved overnight.

But of course! It’s all George Bush’s fault!

Well, truth to tell, quite a bit of it is. But a mighty big chunk of this mess is owned outright by the Democrats. And the people know it.

Republicans have hammered the administration for government spending levels, and public polling for the first time is showing that the American public is losing confidence in the president's handling of the economic crisis. That shift occurred in the middle of last month, when a range of public surveys showed that more people (46.9 percent) disapproved of the president's handling of the economy than approved of it (45 percent), according to the Web site Pollster.com.

Hey, it’s swell that the administration has finally decided that the deficit is a problem – or rather, they have seen that the voters consider it to be a problem, with potentially ominous election consequences, commencing today – but if they’re all really that worried, how about if they start rethinking cap-and-trade and ObamaCare?

Most of them won’t, of course, because the Democrats have made a suicide pact with their leftist fringe (and as I’ve said on other occasions, the fringe makes up the bulk of the Democratic carpet). We read a lot in the press these days about the internecine struggle between moderates and conservatives within the Republican Party. I think the much bigger story is the coming collapse of the Democratic Party, as a result of its war against the very idea of America.