WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A combative President Barack Obama warned on Saturday he was bracing for a fight against powerful lobbyists and special interests who sought to pick apart the $3.55 trillion budget he wants to advance his agenda of reform.
Obama's spending blueprint, with its massive $1.17 trillion deficit and tax hikes on the wealthy, seeks to squeeze billions of dollars in savings out of current spending through competitive bidding among health insurers and ending subsidies and tax breaks for banks, agribusiness and oil companies.
"These steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business," the president said in his weekly radio address.
"I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak," he said. "My message to them is this: So am I."

I've written before about the inexperience and naivete of president Obama and this is a fight he doesn't and shouldn't want. Unfortunately for him he is a true believer and is just too inculcated in to the extreme liberal-socialist agenda to understand that the American people are already fed up with him not even six weeks in to his presidency.
Obama has surrounded him self with yes men, and other true believers that apparently are keeping him insulated from the fomenting rebellion in this country due to the stimulus and record spending on social programs approved and proposed by Obama.
There is a building backlash coming from the middle class that is going to take Obama and his administration by surprise in it's intensity. The recent Tea Parties around the nation are just the start of the re-awakening of the conservative juggernaut that is going to reclaim the congress in 2010 and most assuredly retake the White House in 2012.
My hope is that the GOP will put forward a candidate in 2012 that makes Ronald Reagan look like a liberal pacifist. And I want to walk outside on the evening of November 6th 2012 and listen to the POP! POP! POP! of liberals heads exploding as they realize that they will not see a majority in any branch of government for a long, long, long time.
Thankfully Barack Obama is on a course right now to fuck up this country to such a degree as to do a majority of the heavy lifting for us.
In the end unfortunately, we are going to be planting the flag on top of the smoldering heap of what remains of the US after he and his communist minions are out of power. But that horrific specter is what will set the American people against any and all things democrat for a good many years.
The final outcome of Obama's presidency is going to be something we are not likely to ever forget, disgusting things like that typically stay with you for life.