By LARRY WILKE

What’s the rush? It’s only the BUDGET.

According to Politico, Congress is “poised to miss its April 15^th deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber.” (“Congress sees no budget rush” 04/12/10) With that “Congressional Mulligan” as my outline, I am “poised” to miss the IRS’ “April 15^th deadline” without considering filling out their ridiculous and repetitive forms. I am a proud and un-hyphenated American citizen as opposed to one of our “Congressional Potentates,” how well do you think that that plan will work out for me?

Lost within the hubris and sarcasm of the liberal Congress missing an April 15^th budgetary deadline, it isn’t difficult to figure out why this one will go by the boards. Congress and all of its lemmings and lackeys are too busy poking and probing the returns of ordinary citizens in order to bankroll any number of progressive programs and pogroms meant to penalize the productive. After all, Obama has a “scamulus” bill, a “health scare” bill and a “controversial” globaloney warming/climate change bill that are in dire need of the disposable and non-disposable income of the nation’s middle (and soon to be lower) class.

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