Obama's Tax and Spend "Budget" Not a Hit With Congress

UPDATE: Obama's budget has $1 trillion in new taxes hidden in it and not surprisingly, Republicans ripped President Obama's long-awaited budget proposal Wednesday. Read More: Republicans Call Obama Budget 'Unbalanced.'



The train wreck known as President Obama's budget has been delivered to Congress with little pomp and circumstance and much criticism from both sides of the

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political aisle. The plan, which in a nutshell, calls for more spending (no surprise) more tax hikes (no surprise) and Social Security cuts (surprise, seniors!) has many in Congress, Both Republicans and Democrats up in arms. Read More: Obama's $3.77 Trillion Budget

The Republicans, while happy with cuts in entitlements, also known as welfare, are not happy with tax hikes. The GOP insists the president got his tax cuts as a result of the "fiscal cliff" debacle at the end of 2012. The Democrats and many progressives, while on board with more taxes, are having a hissy-fit over cutting cost-of-living increases in Social Security. Actually, it can't be cut much more than the meager 1.7% increase seniors saw for this year.

So...is the president's budget DOA (dead on Arrival) as they like to say in Washington? Read More: Will the Budget Survive Scrutiny?

And in the , "Oh, By The Way" segment....Things must be really getting bad as a result of the Obama authored

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sequestration budget cuts...word has it that the president's chef might be furloughed. Does that mean pizza deliveries to White House state dinners? Also, it seems 1/3 of military aircraft are being grounded, including the Navy's high flying demonstration team, the Blue Angels.

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Could the Air Force Thunderbirds be far behind? Yep. They've been put in the hanger, too.

But not Air Force One. President Obama continues his almost daily flights around the country at the tune of $180,000 PER HOUR to keep the big jet in the air. 

And the Obama's continue to act as royalty, despite the countries financial problems. The President and Mrs. Obama hosted Tuesday night, the lavish Memphis Soul concert at the White House. Read More: Sequestration Celebration?

So much for sequestration!!

 While no one seems to be saying how much the tax-payer funded concert cost, Breitbart.com featured the following headline on it's website. "White House Closed for Tours, Open for Celebrity Soul Concert." One wonders if the $2 million budgeted for the tours was diverted to the concert...just a thought.

The president seems to be running "selective sequestration."

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