Political expediency kills balanced budget

  From the Washington Examiner:

In anticipation of this weekend's vote, The Club for Growth has posted a video showing 20 current Democratic Senators saying they support a balanced budget amendment. All 47 Republican Senators have said they will vote for a balanced budget amendment. 47 + 20 = 67. 67 is more than enough Senators needed to pass a constitutional amendment

  It will be interesting to see how much of the interest in a balanced budget act is politically advantageous one moment and against one's principles the next.
  This is why politicians of both parties need to be replaced periodically. Their decisions are often not made based on what is good for the nation, but rather what benefits them personally, good for keeping their party in power or the result of peer pressure.
  Republicans are as political as Democrats. They realize that the electorate is engaged now, as engaged as they have ever been, and there will be great pressure, loud townhall meetings and tea party candidates to face if they fail to settle this problem satisfactorily.
  Funny. Years ago Democrats decried raising the debt ceiling to a man. Now they claim Republicans don't want to raise the debt ceiling because Obama is black. (Well, "they" is Sheila Jackson Lee and she really is her own person. Sorry about that.)
  Of course, that was then, 2006. This is now.
  Never mind. It's over. The Senate killed it.
  Today Obama's participating in a "town hall" at a university, where he is most likely to receive a most obsequious welcome. Why? Because universities stifle free thought. Because universities are populated by (literally) commies who want to control their students' behavior in the future.
  Most nauseating is Obama's lecture in USA Today today. All the key phrases are there. Embedded in the lecture is this statement, which tells you all you need to know about where his thinking is on spending. Fairness=stealing from the productive to give to the non-productive. 
  A better future for our children? 
  That would be teaching them to work for themselves instead of depending on others to pay their bills. 
  That mean stopping this insane spending on stupid stuff from which cronies benefit.
    That would be acting in the interests of all the citizens of this country rather than just  political interests.

This debate offers the chance to put our economy on stronger footing, restore a sense of fairness in our country, and secure a better future for our children.

  In the beginning of the stump speech, Obama was known for several things: "always talking about hope and he's always talking about unity."
  Unity.
  That was then. This is now.