UPDATES are provided below about this ongoing farce or kabuki theater both the D and R and TP’s are playing out in DC as though they are actors in this drama and we are the viewers.

This man Carney is a master at avoiding questions. Talk about yakking in circles. It’s enough to make any sane person’s head spin.

By showing such blatant obfuscation he shows his hand – the White House doesn’t have a budget plan! They apparently have numbers on pieces of paper that were never handed out to the White House press corp nor to anyone else for all that matters. What kind of charade are these punks playing here?

Watch this clown. He’s getting paid a ton of dough by you, the taxpayer, telling you not a damned thing!

Here is what Zerohedge is saying about this clip –

“Even as the Congressional Budget Office has just released its score of the proposed Boehner plan, the president’s spokesman Jay Carney was out earlier hemming and hewing for about 9 minutes in front of reports before it was made clear that Obama does not even have an actual plan to paper which the CBO can score. Yet surprisingly enough, as the National Review Online presents, even without actually having any plan, Obama is still happy to announce he will veto Boehner’s plan. It is one thing to veto one plan over another, if one believe the “another” is better. But vetoing something on purely ideological grounds, in the complete absence of “another”… well that we have no idea how it can possible be spun aside from pure ideological demagoguery.”

And here’s what the National Review is saying –

“Or the lack thereof. After bobbing-and-weaving for nine minutes, Carney finally says what everybody knows: The president won’t put his plan on paper because he doesn’t want it to become “politically charged” before a compromise can be reached. In other words, you’ve got to pass it to find out what’s in it…So POTUS doesn’t have a plan, as such. The Republicans, for their part, have several. But the president’s senior advisers are recommending that he veto the latest.”

Budget making isn’t a game of chicken! It’s a game where one-side offers a plan and the other counters it with their own, but apparently in this moronic showdown only one side has offered a plan while the other is bluffing. The White House doesn’t have a friggin plan of any kind. How do you negotiate? Where do you compromise? Helloooo?

And the man in the White House wants your vote in 2012? Seriously? You can’t be shnookered a second time, can you?

UPDATE: Read this article by Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant to Treasury during Reagan’s term –

The Political Theater and the Debt Ceiling Crisis: Are We Being Had?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Prisonplanet.com
July 27, 2011

In my last column I suggested that an unintended outcome of the debt ceiling impasse could be Congress’ loss of the power of the purse. In this column I suggest an intended outcome that the ongoing political theater might be designed to produce.

President Obama has said that he will not resort to the various powers open to him to keep the government running should Congress fail to deliver a debt ceiling increase. This is a suspicious statement, as it is not credible that a president would leave troops at war unpaid and without supplies, Social Security checks unsent and stand aside while the US dollar collapses and the credit rating of the US government is destroyed.

There are national security directives and executive orders already on the books, as well as the 14th Amendment, that Obama can invoke to set aside the debt ceiling. Congress would sigh with relief that Obama had prevented the lawmakers from destroying the country.

So what might be going on?

One possibility is that the political theater is operating to bring about otherwise politically impossible cuts in the social safety net. If the drama continues to the absolute deadline without a deal, Obama, who perhaps favors cutting the safety net as much as do the Republicans, would have to accept the Republican package in order that the troops are not cut off from supplies, Social Security checks can continue to go out, and the dollar be saved. Having opposed the Republicans to the last minute, Obama can say that he had no other recourse.

What American wants the troops deserted on the field of battle and the elderly without groceries? Who other than the rich can stand the higher prices from dollar devaluation?

It would be a perfectly orchestrated scenario for getting rid of the New Deal and the Great Society that use up money that could be spent on wars and bailouts and tax cuts for the rich.

If the American public is not sufficiently softened up by August 2, the political theater can continue with temporary debt ceiling increases until things really begin to crack. On July 15 S&P put all AAA-rated insurance companies on CreditWatch citing ties to the US sovereign credit rating. On July 25, the US dollar fell to a new low against the Swiss franc, and gold reached a new high. Some more of this, and the public will see benefit cuts as preferable to economic armageddon.

If Bush and Cheney were still in office, they would use the debt ceiling impasse to seize more power from Congress. Obama, however, might be so well aligned with financial interests that the opportunity he sees is to cut Social Security, Medicare and education loose from the federal budget. Then Wall Street can privatize them.

Whatever emerges from the debt ceiling impasse, it will not be in the interest of the American people.

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House.

And this article by Paul Craig Roberts Is America Caught in the Closed Mind Trap?