President Obama‘s so-called three-year freeze on discretionary spending is going to elicit a huge collective groan from liberal bloggers, and much detailed analysis today.

So I’m going to restrict myself to one paragraph from the NYT story which may not receive much attention in the detailed analyses:

But one administration official said that limiting the much smaller discretionary domestic budget would have larger symbolic value. That spending includes lawmakers’ earmarks for parochial projects, and only when the public believes such perceived waste is being wrung out will they be willing to consider reductions in popular entitlement programs, the official said.

So that’s the master plan, as disclosed by an administration official? This is the preamble to pushing cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security?

That’s change you can believe in right there, isn’t it?

It seems that we have gone from the Democratic Party flapping around over healthcare reform like a chicken with its head cut off to the Obama administration displaying heights of political lunacy that even the Massachusetts special election cannot be invoked to explain.