So wait - instead of cutting spending this year because the fiscal situation is so dire - he’s going to cut spending starting in 2011 (so he can get his pet projects passed this year ahead of that). That’s so his fellow Democrats can bring home the bacon on his projects.

That’s all this is - push off the tough decisions until after election day.
Typical - and both parties do it, but that’s business as usual - not doing things differently.

The SS, Medicare and Medicaid were started decades ago and were unsustainable then, and are now and will be unless substantive changes are made. Fix it. Good.