A Master Politician ...

President Barack Obama

And gifted orator ... yet a fiscal fool.  His 2013 budget proposal is so ludicrous it should have been written with crayons on shirt cardboards and floated into Congress affixed to helium balloons tied to hyenas's tails.  Even the liberals are laughing (see: The Atlantic Story).   It cynically would produce at minimum a $1.3 trillion deficit for our next fiscal year ... a suicide note.  And yet Obama has backed the Republicans into a corner politically so that they cannot force the Democrats to cut spending to pay for the payroll tax cuts ... in order to try to keep the Social Security program solvent for our children. 

Silly Democrat Harry Reid brought last year's Presidential budget submission to a vote in the Senate.  It lost 97-0.  He won't make the same mistake this year ... it won't even be brought up for a vote.  Yet the President will say this is another instance of a do-nothing Congress.  And the American people won't understand this inane and dangerous jester-prank.

In fact this is a good way to differentiate good policy from good politics.  Good policy is a statesman's attempt to do right by the country ... whereas good politics is the demagogue's attempt to push any agenda no matter how damaging if it is beyond the comprehension of the American public.  And the media will cooperate to make it sound like good policy.  Unfortunately we have a consummate politician at our helm ...