O's '70% done' boast is 100% bogus

Charles Hurt - Inside Washington

INSIDE WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON -- President Obama made an as tonishing claim this week that he has accomplished 70 percent of all the Hope and Change he promised us during his 2008 campaign.

"If you look at the checklist, we've already covered about 70 percent," he boasted to the crowd of mostly college kids, that one sector of Obama's base most likely to fall for his magic tricks two elections in a row.

The throngs applauded as Obama jumped from the bogus to the absurd when he explained why he hasn't accomplished even more.

"I figured I needed to have something to do for the next couple of years," he said with a flash of his famous modesty.

The truth is Democrats are in full retreat from Obama and their dismal record in Congress.

Here are their top three biggest failures as they head into the November elections.

1. No budget.

The single loudest demand from voters these days is that Washington be fiscally responsible. It is the backbone of the Tea Party movement.

Nothing is more basic and fundamental to fiscal order than a budget, which Democrats failed to get done even though they firmly control both chambers of Congress and the White House.

2. Looming tax hikes.

Despite their insistence that they will extend the Bush tax cuts for middle-class families, they failed to even offer a single bill to do so.

Promising to get that done after the elections is a little like your used-car salesman -- who has already screwed you repeatedly -- promising to fix the car after you buy it from him.

3. Government health care.

Even with total control of Congress, Democrats failed to pass the massive government health-care program they had sworn to push through.

Instead, they settled for a whittled-down program that still costs a trillion dollars and heaps endless new regulations on businesses, doctors and insurance companies.

Even that has proven so deathly unpopular among the weary and hostile public that most Democrats are running away from that "accomplishment."

churt@nypost.com