Not that you heard this from anyone during the campaign, especially not the fucking liberal media, but if you could cut out all of the discretionary spending for the year--including the entire fucking Department of Defense budget--that would balance the federal budget. Unless you raise taxes, that's the only way to do it. Now, of course, you can't touch the Pentagon's money. If you cut that even by a penny, you're not supporting the troops, and you might as well hand the launch codes right to Osama bin Laden. So let's leave in the $664 billion for the DoD. Oh, and the $43 billion for Homeland Security. Can't touch that, either. And the $24 billion for DoJ--can't be soft on crime! Let's just cut out those pussy things like education, the EPA, Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, and the VA (It's an all-volunteer military, amirite? Why keep coddling those non-producers after they're out of the service?). Okay. You're still half a trillion dollars in the red. That's right. Oh, but I'm sure a tax cut will make that up. But only a tax cut on the rich. That way, they'll create jobs for the underpants gnomes, or whatever that stupid supply-side religion says.
And hopefully there will be time left over for very serious hearings on every little thing.
Compromise on renewable energy standards is possible, but the posturing between Rep. Joe Barton, the chairman of the energy committee, and the administration, may make this terribly difficult. The GOP plans to hold high profile hearings examining the alleged "scientific fraud" behind global warming, a sleeper issue in this election that motivated the base quite a bit.
But most of all I can't wait to get the office pool started on which made-up scandal will ultimately lead to the next purely political impeachment. TPM has the early favorites here.
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