The President has a great deal of faith in committees, except when he doesn't. For example, last year he created, by executive order, the debt commission - a committee designed to provide recommendations on how the country can balance its books. The commission's report came out in December of 2010, and was promptly ignored by the White House. Instead the Obama administration offered a budget that still spent more than a trillion dollars of deficit spending. The rhetoric was that Obama was cutting a trillion over 10 years. The debt commission was all but forgotten.The Obama budget was dead on arrival with the house and the American people. In the interim Paul Ryan outlined a budget counter proposal that trimmed between 4 and 6 trillion dollars in 10 years. Obama had played political chicken with the Republicans, daring them to go after the sacred cows of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Ryan took the challenge, and his real plan for real fiscal reform struck a chord...(Read Full Post)