[Hoot Gibson]

Senior administration officials said the fiscal 2013 budget will feature a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction, in part by ending the Bush-era tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or more. The budget also will ask Congress to impose the president’s “Buffett rule,” named for billionaire Warren Buffett, that would require tax rates of at least 30 percent on income over $1 million.

The budget is nothing by a hoax. Unless Obama can convince Democratic Majority Leader to bring the budget to the floor for a vote, which Reid has said he will not do, or McConnell once again forces a vote on the Obama budget as he did once before, the budget has no chance of passing. If it comes to a vote, Senate Democrats are very unlikely to approve it.

Does it not trouble you liberals that Obama's Chief of Staff is lying about Republicans blocking the passage of a budget for the past 1,018 days? Do Democrats like being lied to or are they just not alert enough to notice?