Richard Anthony for Congress

Last week, we pointed out that Frank Wolf has taken to repeated attacks on President Obama and his administration over the last year, causing many to speculate that Congressman Wolf may be concerned about his primary against self-described “tea party candidate” Jim Trautz. As Rich Anthony pointed out, “The radical far right members of [Wolf’s] party must be pleased with his round the clock attacks on President Obama and his administration.”

Well, Wolf is at it again, only this time he is attacking Obama for supporting a concept that Wolf himself has asked President Obama to support on more than one occasion. Here's Wolf.

I saw the article in this morning’s Washington Post about the Obama administration cutting a backroom deal with the Democratic leadership to create by executive order a commission to deal with our nation’s [excessive?] spending. I’m opposed to creating this panel by executive order and the American people will be opposed. Congress should be voting to create this commission and requiring that it act on the panel’s recommendation. What the president and the Democratic leadership, which has only come around to addressing the issue because they need political cover to increase the debt limit, have agreed to is a fig leaf. This is the same group that has pushed our deficit to record levels and continues to write check after check from an account that has a negative balance. The American people will not be cut out of the process…it is a backroom deal…this is wrong. Any action should be taken by a newly elected Congress, not one on the way out the door. Creating this commission by executive order is the wrong way to go. We have to get this right, too much is at stake.

As evidenced by the video and transcript of Wolf speaking this morning, this is a man who only thinks an idea is a good one if he thought of it. The fact is, Wolf has supported an independent budget commission to tackle the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, and that’s exactly what President Obama has proposed. As the Washington Post reports, “Under the agreement, President Obama would issue an executive order to create an 18-member panel that would be granted broad authority to propose changes in the tax code and in the massive federal entitlement programs -- including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security -- that threaten to drive the nation's debt to levels not seen since World War II.”

Frank Wolf has always supported the idea of a bipartisan commission on the budget, but now he opposes it simply because a Democratic president is in favor of it? Is this the kind of hyperpartisanship, pettiness and petulance we want from our representatives in the 10th Congressional District? No, we didn’t think so.