This from a recent news story

Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis., continue to oppose the budget bill, with Bayh telling a Sunday talk show that perception is a now big problem for Democrats.
"It looks as if Congress is just on auto pilot, immune to the problems" of Americans, he said, warning about the image Congress projects by passing a spending bill loaded with more than 8,500 earmarks.
The two Democrats have called on President Obama to veto the bill, but the White House has insisted that the measure is merely "last year's business" and that Congress should pass it quickly and move on to more pressing issues.

Uh, last year's business? I don't recall Obama running his campaign on "My first year will be the last year of Bush." And didn't the Democrats control Congress last year? Don't they still? So why should it be so hard to remove all the bullsh*t? And what more pressing issues do we have than the massively increasing IOU we're pushing into our future?
We'll get the theater of confrontation, but in the end, Republicans and Democrats will come together just enough to screw us over again.

What happened to Obama's budget scalpel? It's become a butter knife spreading sauce over 8500 pieces of pork.

Politics of same.