Krauthammer’s Take: President Obama’s Budget ‘Entirely a Political and Partisan Document’

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President Obama’s “above the fray” shtick is getting tiring, says Charles Krauthammer — especially when it is accompanied by purely political machinations, like the White House’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

“I don’t mind if the president sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his remarks . . . by saying that we have to put politics aside, posing again as the one person in the country who rises above partisanship and party, speaks for the national interest, it’s really grating,” said Krauthammer on Monday’s Special Report. “The budget he gave he knows is not going to pass. It’s not a real document. It is entirely a political and partisan document. It’s a way to present liberal budget choices in a way that is completely unacceptable, but a way to frame the debate in the future.“

“And when he talks about the mindless austerity of the sequester — this is austerity?” asked Krauthammer. “The budget he presented is a half a trillion dollars of deficit. Until Obama acceded to the presidency, never in our history did we have a half a trillion dollars of deficit. Now he tells us we are in prosperity and recovery, and he still has half a trillion of deficit. And he calls it austerity.

“This is a spending budget. The Republicans are not going to accept it. And rather than use it as a starting point for the bargaining on the budget, it should be completely ignored,” Krauthammer advised. “Let the Republicans start from scratch.