Video- President Obama on a Bold New Course for NASA

Video- President's Weekly Address: Reining in Budget Deficits

Obama wins more cuts in spending than Bush

But Democrats don't cut spending!! This is one of the memes that the D's should have tucked in their pockets for every talking head show today,and be pounding it over and over.

President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year, winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years.

The administration says Congress accepted at least $6.9 billion of the $11.3 billion in discretionary spending cuts Mr. Obama proposed for the current fiscal year. An analysis by The Washington Times found that Mr. Obama was victorious in getting Congress to slash 24 programs and achieved some level of success in reducing nine other programs.

Among the president's victories are canceling the multibillion-dollar F-22 Raptor program, ending the LORAN-C radio-based ship navigation system and culling a series of low-dollar education grants. In each of those cases, Mr. Obama succeeded in eliminating programs that Mr. Bush repeatedly failed to end.

Gramm-pa McCain: Did I say "balance the budget" in 4 years? Psyche!

By GottaLaff

The video is from September 22, 2008:

HARWOOD: Would you concede, then, that you could not achieve your goal of balancing the budget in your first term with this huge bailout added?

MCCAIN: I believe we can still balance the budget.

October 20, 2008, adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin:

“The events of the past few months have completely thrown a wrench into that, there’s no way round it. He would still like to balance it. It’s going to be harder, take longer,” said Holtz-Eakin at a debate with his Democratic counterpart at Columbia University in New York.

But wait! IWRC* Palin didn't get the memo. October 20, 2008:

Gov. Sarah Palin said that McCain would still balance the budget by the end of his first term.

The word "erratic" comes to mind.