Milbank: Obama Kicks Can Again

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank is inclined to be pro-Obama, both he and WaPo lean left. That makes his summary of the roll-out of the president's budget all the more damning, it's entitled: "In his new budget, Obama kicks the can one more time."

Milbank makes fun of the Obama budget people and their stumbling defense of the president's lame budget. He quotes just about everybody in Washington saying "we can't kick the can down the road again." Kicking that old can is exactly what the new budget does: it contains no hope and no change.

Neither party wants to propose the really painful, necessary cuts. They know the other party will instantly jump on them for being brutal and heartless.

Can you say "catch 22?" One has to wonder if there is a way out of this mess short of the kind of disaster Greece found itself in?