What Democrats Won't (Budget) Cut

The Harry Reid/Herb Kohl Senate will not cut:

National Public Radio

Internal Revenue Service Obama wants a 9% budget hike for the tax collecting agency and 1,269 new positions to implement ObamaCare

Amtrak Republicans want to cut $224 million from its budget, which could be accomplished by axing highly subsidized routes outside the Northeast Corridor

Environmental Protection Agency

National Endowment for the Arts Democrats are fighting a Republican effort to merely return funding to 2007 levels

National Endowment for the Humanities --the cowpoke poets' society

Planned Parenthood a/k/a "Murder, Inc."

Interior Department Republicans want to cut $1.4 billion from the Interior Department to prevent it from implementing the Obama administration’s wilderness policy, which allows the agency to impose conservation restrictions on public lands without congressional approval

Legal Services Corporation

AmeriCorps

At the same time, (D) Senators are dreaming up a "mileage tax" ...