To curb future deficits, you do need entitlement reform. It is there that we should concentrate our cuts. By contrast, nondefense discretionary spending has risen by 41% and welfare entitlements like Medicaid and food stamps are up by 54%. Over the past two years, Social Security has risen by 12% and Medicare by 16%. These two programs are not the culprits in the massive recent increase of the federal deficit. But we need to defeat Obama in the short term – 2012 – and attempting to rein in either program is a sure way to lose.Īnd you don’t need to curb either Social Security or Medicare to achieve major deficit reduction. Some, like Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Devin Nunes (R-Calif) and Jack Kingston (R-Ga) and the editor of the Weekly Standard Bill Kristol correctly say that you can’t balance the budget, in the long term, without touching these two entitlements. Attempts to cut or even alter one or the other of these programs cost Clinton control of Congress in 1994, Republicans the presidency in 1996, Bush his popularity in 2005, and Obama his Congressional majority in 2010. The one sure way to mess it all up is for the GOP to engage in the political equivalent of imperial over-reach and try to cut (or reform) Medicare or Social Security before the 2012 election. Jeremiah Wright, is “coming home to roost.” Obama’s foreign policy lies in ruins, his coddling of Islamic fundamentalists, in the words of Rev. Even Democrats are lining up to block the EPA’s plans to restrict carbon emissions. Americans increasingly believe that the president’s massive spending isn’t working and must come down. The courts look likely to strike down Obamacare.
Coming off the 2010 victory, they have gotten the Bush tax cuts extended.
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