Simpson-Bowles turned out its report in November of 2010, when the Democrats ruled Washington. It was ignored.

What did Obama and the Democrats actually do? Obama extended the Bush tax cuts, including the ones for the rich, and kept us on a course of trillion-dollar deficit spending. You saw how Nutters' little article got ripped to shreds. I just posted the mainstream media responses. There were better ones.

Don't you get it? Everybody can see what's going on now.

Obama is trying his best to see that the shit doesn't hit the fan until after the election. He tried it with health care, he's trying it with taxes, and he's trying it with foreign policy.

It's not working.

Taxes are scheduled to go up drastically, automatically, next year. If spending targets aren't met, automatic cuts are going to take place. Obama's own budgets are dead on arrival, even with Democratic legislators. Democrats in the Senate haven't produced a budget in three years.

What I'm seeing from the Democrats is raw animal panic. They've never learned how to use their brains. Never had to before.

You think tax increases are necessary? You don't need "compromise." You don't need "bipartisanship."

The ball is in Obama's court now. If he wants taxes raised, all he has to do is sit on his hands and veto any attempt to stop the scheduled raises. He doesn't need Congress. He doesn't need the Senate. He doesn't need one damn Republican vote. It's that simple.

"I, Barack Obama, realize that tax increases are the only answer. $400 billion in increases will occur automatically in 2013, and I will veto any attempt to thwart this."

Short speech. Wouldn't even need a teleprompter.