Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, July 20, 2009 12:38:40 PM
Obama cannot afford to have another report hit the street showing
that he has miscalculated — again — the extent of the deficit, just as
he proposes a deficit-busting program. The White House has instead
iced the report to keep people from seeing just how badly Democratic
spending has dented the budget, and how revenues have not recovered
despite their predictions of growth by Q2. They want to hold off those
numbers until Obama has a bill he can sign on his desk, by which time
it will be too late.
Consider this: if those budget numbers looked good, would
the White House postpone revealing them? Obama could use all the good
news he can get at the moment, especially with two big-spending bills
stalling in Congress. If the deficit looked better than their May
predictions, or even if it looked the same, those numbers would have
already hit the front pages of newspapers across America and every
network news broadcast, with the message that the worst has passed.
Obama delaying release of disastrous new budget numbers