Yeah, actually — I’d say that’s a pretty accurate way of putting it.

“Trying to find a funding source to repair the nation’s infrastructure is still a big goal of mine. And the president talked about infrastructure, but he didn’t talk about how to pay for it,” Boehner told reporters Thursday morning. “It’s easy to go out there and be Santa Claus and talk about all these things you want to give away, but at some point, somebody’s got to pay the bill.”

Promises, promises — like the ones President Obama made during his State of the Union for things like a “Fix-It First” program, more infrastructure spending, and universal preschool — all certainly sound like lovely public “investments,” but where exactly is all the money for these extenuated stimulus efforts supposed to come from? It defies credulity that the president can be perfectly okay with proposing new spending ideas while we’re still adding trillions of dollars to our debt in the next ten years. ‘Whatever, we’ve pretty much achieved the deficit reduction levels economists say we need to stabilize our debt — problem solved, amirite?’

That’s essentially the point Daniel Henninger made in today’s WSJ — none of this is really about fiscal sanity or political pragmatism. This is President Obama’s party, and America is just along for the ride: