Obamawhining on the budget

Megan McCardle (no right winger or even Republican) has his number. You know, I used to have to quote right wingers to get criticism of the one. Now it seems anyone who is paying attention and not directly on his payroll is sick of him. This has to be an all time record from hero to zero. W. O. W. Ms. McCardle's Money Graf:

Listening to his defenders reminds me of those people who sit around whining about how their Dad was really distant and critical. … I mean, fine, you apparently had a rotten childhood, but Dad can’t get come and get you off the couch and find you a girlfriend and a better job. Girls and employers get really creeped out if they try.

Whatever George W. Bush did or did not do, he’s no longer in office, and doesn’t have the power to do a damn thing about the budget. Obama is the one who is president with the really humongous deficits. Deficits of the size Bush ran are basically sustainable indefinitely; deficits of the size that Obama is apparently planning to run, aren’t. If he doesn’t change those plans, he will be the one who led the government into fiscal crisis, even if changing them would be [sob!] politically difficult.