A storm is brewing in the Sunshine State

Today, the Obama Administration released its $3.76 trillion budget for 2011.  The budget’s ugliest features are a $2 trillion tax increase on upper-income taxpayers and businesses, and a $1.56 trillion deficit. This new abomination of tax-spend-borrow waste is less of an actual budget than it is the Christmas list of a spoiled brat.

Despite the public outrage with and spectacular failure of his signature policy initiatives, in last night’s State of the Union Obama confidently promised to pursue an ambitious liberal agenda of intrusive government. Like a desperate poker player with a losing hand, Obama is too proud to fold, and hopes to bluff his way to victory. [...]