Scalpel Becomes a Hatchet

The Emperor was reading the Thin Skinned One's plan to freeze spending to help control run-away spending. A brilliant idea in the Emperor's humble opinion. His Highness, however, recalls hearing that plan before--accept it was proposed by Obama's opponent, the Aged Warrior of Arizona known as John McCain. The Thin Skinned One mocked the Warrior's words. He said that a spending freeze would be like using a hatchet on the budget when a scalpel was needed. The Thin Skinned One said he would go through the budget line by line and remove those items that weren't working and keep those that were. The Emperor supposes that the Thin Skinned One decided that everything in the budget was working and decided to add lots and lots more to the runaway success of all those government programs. Now the Obamanites want to use the Warrior's unused hatched to freeze spending. Except, of course, they only want to freeze spending on those programs that aren't welfare programs, climate change programs, health care programs, or programs that have anything to so with homeland security or national defense. That leaves the Washington D.C. dog pound as the only spending program that can be cut. And the Baroness Pelosi rejected that. The Emperor agrees that it is time to "use the hatchet" but it will have to be wielded by someone who actually has the courage to swing it.