Obama the Spender Warns on Debt: Today's Outrage

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- President Obama, the champion of stimulus spending, is suddenly worried about an overload of government debt.

After pressing Congress to approve an $800 billion package of infrastructure projects, unemployment benefits and tax cuts during his first month in office, Obama is now warning that too much debt could cause a double-dip recession.

Even more intriguing about this shift in rhetoric is that he chose to deliver the new message to Fox News, News Corp. (NWS) network with which Obama has been feuding over a perceived conservative bias.

One can only assume that the detente with Fox and the decision to talk about debt issues is a politically calculated move to assuage Republicans who have been making deficit spending a centerpiece of their resistance to Obama's many initiatives, in particular health care reform.

Obama also acknowledged that he's in a precarious position in terms of boosting job creation to keep the recovery going while reinstating some fiscal discipline.

In the same interview with Fox, Obama talked about the need for new measures to spur companies to create jobs. Obama's Democratic Party chiefs in Congress are in fact working on new legislation they hope will bring down the unemployment rate from the staggering 10.2% level. Any government-sponsored initiatives along those lines will add to the deficit one way or another.

It's essentially an admission of failure that Democrats are now working on a second job-creation package.