And Blah, Blah, Blah

“Our first order of business is going to be to get our deficits and debt under control,” the president explained. “And the good thing is is that there’s a forcing mechanism. The Bush tax cuts end at the end of the year. We know that we’ve got the sequester looming that wouldn’t be the right way to do things, that’s taking a machete to something as opposed to a scalpel.” “And after the election, I think that both Democrats and Republicans have to step back and say, ‘You know what? This is something that the country wants to solve.’ If I’ve won, then I believe that’s a mandate for doing it in a balanced way.”

  Raw Story

Not that he jumped into the sack with banksters and corporate CEOs to deepen the burden, or anything, immediately upon winning in 2008.

And you can be assured he'll respond to a mandate, because the mandate he had for ending the way Washington does business both at home and around the globe upon winning in 2008 has been so well answered.

Maybe he's been working with a scalpel when he should have used a machete.

Brings to mind the 1992 Democratic primary debates when Jerry Brown was angling toward the presidency.  In one round, after the other potential candidates (including Bill Clinton) had made some mealy-mouthed response to a question about the then current state of affairs and what they'd do about it, Brown nearly shouted, “These guys are talking about tweaking this and that, when what we need to do is take a machete in there.” (Please, that's not an exact quote, I'm sure.) Of course, he was right, and the forest of corruption and bad policy has only thickened for lack of that machete.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.