It's another Obama record! Feds run deficit for 38th straight month

Of course, when you blow $840 billion on a "Stimulus" package -- and then never pass another budget -- this news really can't come as much of a surprise.

The federal government ran a $139 billion deficit in November, marking the 38th straight month in the red, according to a preliminary estimate the Congressional Budget Office released Wednesday.

...That suggests the deals President Obama and Congress struck in April and again over the summer to limit spending are not having much effect in actually reducing outlays.

Interest payments on the debt continue to rise at the fastest rate of any category of spending, jumping 12.4 percent this year. Social Security and Medicare spending were also up.

Meanwhile, defense spending is down nearly 7 percent, driven by lower procurement. And spending on unemployment benefits is down markedly, nearly 26 percent lower at this point than it was last year. Education spending also has declined after the expiration of parts of Mr. Obama’s 2009 stimulus.

...The government hasn’t run a surplus since September 2008 [Bush!], just before the Wall Street collapse near the end of the Bush administration. That is by far the longest streak in records dating back to the 1980s. Before the current streak, the government had never gone an entire year without running a surplus in at least one month.

I have a few questions for John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and our other feckless GOP leaders.

How freaking hard is it for you to share the above chart, which depicts the Democrats' calamitous spending plans?

How hard is it to mention a shocking, double-digit rise in interest payments -- a sure recipe for disaster -- every time you open your mouths?

How hard is it for you to discuss this outrageous monthly deficit record in every single press conference?

Folks, if we don't elect the most conservative candidates possible in 2012, men and women who believe in and honor the Constitution, I fear the grand American experiment may be at its end. Not from Nazism, Communism, Islamism or any other external enemy, but from within -- at the hands of insidious counter-revolutionaries dedicated to dividing us by race, income, religion and class.

Hilarity in the White House Press Room: European Reporter Rips Obamaconomy for "Worse than Eurozone" Debt Levels

Today, as the Eurozone melted down in a debt-fueled replay of the 2008 Lehman crisis, a curious scene unfolded in the White House press room.

In an apparent suggestion of United States hypocrisy on debt issues, a journalist in the German media challenged White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on the role of the United States in responding to the European debt crisis.

"The U.S., as far as I know, has a worse debt-to-GDP ratio than the whole eurozone, and we are talking about the eurozone, not about the United States and that Congress can't get its act together," said a member of the German press during the briefing. "So from the European perspective, it seems that this country is in a bigger mess than Europe.  We are not proud where we are.  We know that it's slow and not bold, and so on, but at least they are doing something; they are deciding something, they're trying to pull that through.  And here, nothing is happening -- third time this year," he added, referring to the Supercommittee failure.

..."I don't think it's helpful to get into which side of the Atlantic handles its problems better or worse," Carney responded. "I think each side needs to -- we need to act and the Congress needs to act, this country needs to act.  And obviously, as I just discussed in answer to a question earlier, the Europeans need to move forward with rapid implementation of their plans."

That answer, with its recommendation regarding European action, did not seem to satisfy Carney's interlocutor, who began to ask "do you have [any] understanding -- the feeling in the eurozone, I said, it’s not really a time where the U.S. is in a position to give advice to Europe."

The debt ceiling debacle. The "debt commission", ignored by the very man who created it. The continuing resolution collapse. The bogus balanced-budget amendment.

Every single effort to contain the devastating federal spending addiction has been opposed not only by the Marxist left, but by John Boehner, Eric Cantor and the rest of the big government RINOs.

As Michelle Malkin puts it, "The disease [is e]ntrenched incumbency. The cure? Fresh fiscal conservative blood. Remember in November."

One simple graph: If I were the Speaker of the House...

...I would have a very simple message to the American people. The imminent failure of the "Super Committee" approach to a budget compromise validates the prediction that many conservatives made when John Boehner threw away his trump cards.

So I modified a Heritage graph to make a very simple point. And if I were the House Speaker, I would show this chart to the American people at every opportunity and repeat a very simple mantra:

In 2009, Democrats and President Obama rammed a "one-time" Stimulus spending spree through Congress that ended up costing the American people $840 billion.

Since then, that so-called "one-time" spending spree was built into each and every year's budget because of the Democrats' unprecedented failure to pass a budget.

Therefore our message to Democrats is simple: remove the "one-time" Stimulus spending spree from the baseline budget.

Then, and only then, will we talk about other measures to balance the budget. Not that Democrats have ever worried about "revenues" before spending money they didn't have, mind you -- but, hey, let's give them the benefit of the doubt this time.

How hard is that? Am I the only Republican with Photoshop?

John Boehner is a horrible leader for House Republicans. He is inarticulate. He is unprincipled. And, worse, he is more willing to brawl conservatives -- the Tea Party activists that gave him his speakership -- than he is to fight the radical Leftist Democrats who are dragging our country into an economic abyss.

Which is why he needs to be replaced.

2012 is coming -- and, with your help, I predict a conservative tide that will sweep not only the Sorocrats from power, but many of these so-called Republicans.

Horrifying Chart of the Day (and Reason #4,323 that John Boehner Must Be Replaced As Speaker of the House)

Via the Washington Examiner comes this doozy of a reality check:

Consider the negotiating "skills" of House Speaker John Boehner:

• Episode 1: The Continuing Resolution Charade, in which Boehner gives up his trump card -- a government shutdown -- without a whimper

• Episode 2: The Debt Ceiling Debacle, in which Boehner gives up his trump card -- forcing the government to cut spending -- without a fight

• Episode 3: The Case of the Balanced Budget Amendment That Wasn't, in which Boehner hollows out the Cut-Cap-and-Balance pledge and tries to pass a BBA that neither cuts or caps spending

• Episode 4: Super-Committee Cowardice, in which Boehner names RINOs who have no desire to battle the Left nor seriously cut spending

In 2012, we conservatives must rise up and demand that either Michele Bachmann, Paul Ryan or Allen West replace the cowardly, weak-willed, big-government, cocktail-circuit Republican named John Boehner as House Speaker.

We don't have any time left for pathetic losers like Boehner and Eric Cantor who refuse to fight for this country as the Marxist Left drags it into an economic abyss.

I'm sick of these weaklings. And they need to go.