In case you missed it -- which I did (why give a speech in the middle of the afternoon?) -- here is the full video of President Obama's speech on the budget. From what I've read, he's getting generally high marks, even from the left side of the aisle, which had feared he was preparing to abandon us altogether. His spirited defense of Medicare, Social Security and the nation's commitment to helping the less fortunate, as well as his promise -- made before and previously unkept -- to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, left the impression there is still hope for a sound fiscal policy.
Many are relishing the President's almost gleeful rejection of Congressman Paul Ryan's stone-aged, draconian and ridiculous budget offering, which proposed (among other things) to dismantle the Medicare program that has helped so many of our senior citizens avoid spending their golden years in medically-induced, abject poverty.
Right-wingers, of course, are dismissing the whole address as an overly partisan non-starter.
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