Re: Budget votes in the Senate
There is no "$4 trillion" budget. Look here. That's the extent of it, and to the best of my knowledge nothing has been said since. Nobody can vote on it because it doesn't exist. His first budget, the real one, fills 24 megabytes of PDF files.
Medicare costs will be "bent." Wow, that was easy! Why didn't Republicans think of that?
Bonus Orwell Points for the phrase "reduce tax expenditures."
By the way, when the Bipartisan Fiscal Commission report came out in December of 2010, Obama ignored it.