You gotta be kidding

Today's best photo op moments at the White House were of Obama telling his new working groups that they should spend the afternoon together and then report back to him how to cut the federal budget in half. While stuff like this is so stupid that no one would accept it if it were fictional, it gets even better when Obama announces in somber tones that from this point on the US will adopt pay as you go budgeting. Let's see... First you sign the greatest budget busting spending bill in the history of the world and then -- in less than one week -- you announce your fealty to balanced budgets. It is like a serial killer announcing his support for non-violence after killing his 678th victim. The sad thing is that Obama and his advisers must believe that they can get away with this garbage -- and they are probably correct.