Obama's Budget: The AP Seems Rather Unimpressed....

...wonder how this got through the standards filters at the AP.  Someone must be asleep at the switch.  Would be surprised if the verbiage holds through the night.  Still, for a moment, accuracy and sanity peers out from beneath the madness:

Obama's budget: Government still getting bigger

Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Barack Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill.

Though the Pentagon and a number of Cabinet agencies would get squeezed, Obama would leave the spiraling growth of health care programs for the elderly and the poor largely unchecked. The plan claims $4 trillion in deficit savings over the coming decade, but most of it would be through tax increases Republicans oppose, lower war costs already in motion and budget cuts enacted last year in a debt pact with GOP lawmakers...

Obama's budget blueprint reprises a long roster of prior proposals: raising taxes on couples making more than $250,000 a year; eliminating numerous tax breaks for oil and gas companies, and approving a series of smaller tax and fee proposals. Similar proposals failed even when the Democrats controlled Congress.

So it's a...politcal manifesto?  The AP almost comes out and says it. 

Wow.