To PayGo Or Not PayGo, Is Anybody Looking?

I was flipping through channels a little while ago, something I rarely do since I rarely watch television, and saw Steny Hoyer on Meet the Press. In a rare moment of self-flagellation, I stopped and watched for a few minutes. This boob was talking about how the Obama administration was trying to get spending under control after being handed a huge deficit by the Bush Administration (no kidding, he actually said that), and claimed that one of the ways they were trying to do that was with PayGo. How do these liars look at themselves in the mirror? How did such a dishonest, dishonorable man get to be in the position of leadership that Steny Hoyer has? Here is a clear chart of spending by recent presidents. And here is how the Democrats are handling PayGo. Smoke and mirrors, snake oil, call it what you want. I call it lies, and if I was a swearing person, I'd call them damn lies.

JASmius adds: It gets better.  Here's a quote from the aforelinked June 12th, 2009 WSJ piece:

Some things in politics you can't make up, such as President Obama's re-re-endorsement Tuesday of "pay-as-you-go" budgeting. Coming after $787 billion in nonstimulating stimulus, a $410 billion omnibus to wrap up fiscal 2009, a $3.5 trillion 2010 budget proposal, sundry bailouts and a 13-figure health-care spending expansion still to come, this latest vow of fiscal chastity is like Donald Trump denouncing self-promotion.

Check that. Even The Donald would find this one too much to sell.

But Mr. Obama must think the press and public are dumb enough to buy it, because there he was Tuesday re-selling the same "paygo" promises that Democrats roll out every election. Paygo is "very simple," the President claimed. "Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere."

He reiterated his purported fealty to PayGo this past February:

It’s pretty simple. It says to Congress, you have to pay as you go. You can’t spend a dollar unless you cut a dollar elsewhere. This is how a responsible family or business manages a budget. And this is how a responsible government manages a budget, as well.

It was this rule that helped lead to balanced budgets in the 1990s, by making clear that we could not increase entitlement spending or cut taxes simply by borrowing more money. And it was the abandonment of this rule that allowed the previous administration and previous congresses to pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy and create an expensive new drug program without paying for any of it. Now in a perfect world, Congress would not have needed a law to act responsibly, to remember that every dollar spent would come from taxpayers today – or our children tomorrow.

But this isn’t a perfect world. This is Washington. And while in theory there is bipartisan agreement on moving on balanced budgets, in practice, this responsibility for the future is often overwhelmed by the politics of the moment. It falls prey to the pressure of special interests, to the pull of local concerns, and to a reality familiar to every single American – the fact that it is a lot easier to spend a dollar than save one.

That is why this rule is necessary. And that is why I am pleased that Congress fulfilled my request to restore it. Last night, I signed the “pay as you go” rule into law. Now, Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody else.

Now behold False Messiah on "Voice From On High" Radio yesterday:

President Barack Obama says Senate Republicans are playing politics with bills that would extend benefits to the unemployed and increase lending to small businesses.

Striking a deeply partisan tone in his weekly radio and online address, Obama said the GOP leadership has chosen to “filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress” by blocking votes on agenda items the president says would breath life into the economic recovery.

“These steps aren’t just the right thing to do for those hardest hit by the recession,” Obama said. “They’re the right thing to do for all of us.”

They're the wrong thing to do for all of us.  Continuing to grow and subsidize an indolent class that his economic policies continue to deny jobs is only good for him and his corrupt, tyrannical party by creating another dependent constituency that will loot and riot against the death of the welfare state when the inevitable collapse comes.

But that's not the point here.  What IS the point is that Senate Republicans aren't blocking yet another extension of unemployment benies itself; they're blocking those unemployment benies not coming under the PayGo rule to which Red Barry periodically and ritualistically declares his undying phony fealty, but instead simply being grafted onto the gargantuan megadeficit.  If Dems can't find thirty billion dollars lying around in a FOUR TRILLION dollar budget, then they don't really care all the much about the downtrodden their policies are creating after all.

We never have the tube on at all on Sunday mornings, unless my sixteen year old son gets up first and turns it to cartoons.  Hence this question for Jen: Did Hoyer blast Senate Republicans like Barry O did yesterday?  That'd be a tremendous side-by-side video.