James Pethokoukis, Reuters: The Obama White House naturally wants the media to favorably compare his outline to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s 73-page “Path to Prosperity” which is highly detailed and has been scored accurate by the Congressional Budget Office. It brings the budget into balance and eliminates the national debt by cutting spending — not raising taxes. And how does Obama’s “Framework for Shared Prosperity and Shared Fiscal Responsibility”

The Department of Oversight for Overseeing Permissions Allowing References to Things Jesus Will/Might/Could Do, wept. In triplicate. CEI: Federal regulations cost even more than the skyrocketing federal budget deficit, and help bring the federal government’s share of the economy to over 35 percent, a new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute reveals. Regulations cost $1.75 trillion in compliance costs according to the Small Business Administration. That’s greater than the record

Having all sort of computer problems today — in fact, this has been going on for some time — so I’m going to try to fix those with a few hard drive changes before I bequeath you any more of my extremist, cynical, anti-pragmatic purist observations of hating hate. You’ll just have to hate on your own in the meantime. Sorry. Don’t hate me.

Robert Romano, ALG, explains the conflicting budget cut numbers: Here’s the facts: the 2011 CR addresses the non-emergency budgeting authority for 2011. It authorizes $1.049 trillion of spending versus the total $1.364 trillion discretionary portion of the budget that will actually be spent this year. Why the difference? Because discretionary outlays for 2011 serve as a function of the 2011 non-emergency budgeting authority plus the war supplemental plus budgeting authorities

This? Unhelpful.

House: 260-167 Senate: 81-19 According to Alan West (appearing on Levin’s show), only 21 of the 87 freshman voted against; evidently, great pressure was being brought to bear. The good thing is, that pressure separated the diamonds from the coal lumps.

Thank goodness the Dems came on board. Otherwise the Weekly Standard, Karl Rove, Mike Huckabee, Jen Rubin, and the rest of the “serious” conservatives dismissive of the fringe extremists wouldn’t have gotten this thing passed. From the Daily Caller: With a rush of last-minute votes on the bill to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year, House Democrats provided the votes to save a spending bill that

You may not like it — or you may not wish to admit it yourself, for whatever reason — but Obama told us early on who he was and who his supporters are. Believing him was (and still is, even among many “realist” or “pragmatic” “conservatives”) framed as fringe extremism. But the veil is lifting — and in some sense, Obama himself is lifting it. It’s an ideological gauntlet, and

Obama delivers 40 minutes of fail yesterday –- so bad that his chief cheerleader Joe can’t keep his eyes open –- and what is the response out of the Lamestream Media? Say “hello” to “Monica” Klein: Unlike Republican Congressman Paul Ryan’s recent budget plan, Barack Obama’s proposed no radical restructurings or curtailments of brontosaurus-size programs like Medicare or Medicaid. Unlike some of the other plans floating about, and there are

Paul Ryan on Mark Levin’s show yesterday evening.