Hopefully, he goes out to sell the budget, and starts knocking down the most effective of the STILL existant Republican memes:

Government doesn't work, only the private sector can deliver.

Raising taxes on the rich hurts the entire economy.

Government programs in Medicine don't work. (The Swedish and Candadian Socialized Medicine slams you hear the right use...)

He needs to put those Republican myths out to pasture.

The next step is SELL SELL SELL baby, and, as a 20+ year sales manager, let me tell you, the man can close!

The budget proposal will knock those Republican numbers right back down!  C'est la vie.

if Obama has recovered from his mistaken approach and stumble of the Stimulus Bill, as would be suggested by the poll, now would be a great time to aggressively attack the rump republican extremists and be rid of them for a long time to come. It is particularly opportune inasmuch as the rump republicans have mistakenly chosen a strategy of amplifying their failed policies as a means of recovery, i.e., they are fully cooperating with a plan of banishing them to irrelevance in this time of crisis.

between Obama's boldly progressive budget and the golden opportunity to politically crush the republican/conservative extremists that have so damaged America for 30 years, there are things to be optimistic about amid the gloom and doom.

Maybe it is because he is telling the truth for a change.  After eight years of lies and incompetency this is refreshing.

Sure, Obama is telling the truth, assuming you aacept his predictions on the economy not being affected by the largest budget deficit in the nation's history.

And Obama is telling the truth that he knows how to fix our broken economy, assuming you believe that Geithner and Summers are actually going to hold bank executives financially responsible for any more damage they might do.

Also, Obama is certainly telling the truth when he blames George Bush for lax regulations in the banking industry, assuming you believe that Clinton's deregulation of the industry by repealing Glass-Steagall did nothing to enable or encourage banks to pillage the mortgage derivatives markets, which proved to be the industry's (and the economy's) Achille's heel.

And of course he was truthful when he "guaranteed" that the economy would be much worse off if Congress did not vote for HIS "stimulus" bill (that was written by  bipartisan Pelosi and Reid), if you can believe that his crystal ball is both foolproof and more accurate than the economic braintrusts who make up the government's own budget office.

No doubt he also told the truth that there were no earmarks, pork, or pet projects in the stimulus bill, as long as you agree that quadrupling the size of America's food stamp program in six years is necessary for creating jobs, and that each of the ~9000 items in the latest overinflated omnibus appropriations (the spending side of the budget) bill is absolutely necessary. (Keep in mind that Obama said we needed to cut spending on programs we don't need to pay for the ones we do need (not just highly desirable, but absolutely necessary). Obama and the Democratically controlled Congress is NOT showing signs of responsible, judicious, fiscal responsibility. They are cutting expenses on programs they don't like rather than don't need, and are adding or expanding proams thay they do like but don't necessarily need. The country is broke, the banks are broke, and people are losing their homes because they are broke, yet Congress and the President are spending money as if they'd just won the biggest mega-lottery of all time! And this is just a "down-payment" or first phase of the President's agenda?? In what fantastical world of milk and honey and pots of gol at the end of the rainbow is he living? Has Obama actually found the goose that lays golden eggs?

I have news for you, people. WE are the goose, and this goose is not just cooked, but it's being reduced to ashes.  My advice? Kiss you ash (and your life savings) goodbye, unless you're a member of the ruling elite. The rest of us are toast.

I can go on, if you wish. I was very hopeful that Obama was going to deliver on his message of hope and change, but all I've seen is the marketing of hope to sell a wealth distribution scheme, and a change in the way he is going to increase taxes on everyone, hitting the poor and middle-classes disproportionately harder with regressive taxes (cigarettes, fuel, for example), and significantly higher prices to pay for goods produced and/or shipped by companies that will pass the added expenses of cap-and-trade carbon dioxide sequestration.

And this is coming at a time when even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is backpeddling (albeit very slowly and softly) on the impact of greenhouse gases, as more and more scientists from around the globe are producing more evidence that shows that homogenic (man-made) greenhouse gases are far less responsible for adverse climate changes than was previously thought - Even Al [the sky is falling] Gore has been forced to revise his alarmist and excessive hyped-up propaganda (not that any of this has made any difference in the amount of money his book, movie deal, and appearance "stipends" are earning him.)

TRUTH - R.I.P.