When is $100 million bigger than $8 billion?

When the White House wants to trumpet $100 million in potential budget cuts, while downplaying $8 billion in earmarks.

Jennifer Loven and Jake Tapper, neither of whom has ever been accused of being part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, bust White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs on the President's rather meager commitment to fiscal discipline.

Watch the video from the White House Press Briefing.

And on the same day that the Administration says it will try to find $100 million to save, it proposes another $100 billion in spending.

The Heritage Foundation puts Barack Obama's newfound zeal for budget cutting into perspective:



Build a time capsule. Write a letter to your great-grandchildren. Thank them for all of their money.