AMERICA'S NEW AXIS OF EVIL
Posted on 03/03/2009 7:06:54 AM PST by curth
The Obama administration announced Sunday it would keep all options on the table as it prepares to battle Republican lawmakers over a massive budget that stands to usher in historic changes in energy and health-care reform.
Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, refused to rule out the possibility the Obama administration would press for the use of a questionable Senate tactic in which just 50 senators would be needed to pass the controversial changes. The comment was a clear indication the White House is expecting a bruising battle over the legislation.
By using the budget reconciliation process — a lawmaking provision that would keep the budget safe from a GOP filibuster — the budget would need only 50 votes to pass instead of the 60 traditionally needed to overcome a filibuster.
“We have to keep everything on the table. We want to get these … important things done this year,” Mr. Orszag told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. He singled out healthcare by describing it as “the key to our fiscal future.”
But there is serious question as to whether the Obama administration’s use of the budget reconciliation process is consistent with the bill that birthed the process.
Codified in 1974, the budget reconciliation process was to be used “as a deficit-reduction tool, to force committees to produce spending cuts or tax increases called for in the budget resolution.” There is serious doubt, however, the procedural tool intended to reconcile existing tax or entitlement law with the new tax or mandatory spending targets can be used to circumvent debate on an issue of national importance.
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Six weeks in and a lot of Obama voters are saying, 'What the hell did I do??' The pity is it's too late.
Dims= new Axis of Evil
Can someone please name ONE thing that the government ever took over and made better?
Interstate highways.
Yeah, that's it. Phew! I can relax now.
Why is it that only Dems seem to know and employ all these arcane scottish law and parliamentary procedure tactics? Where and why are these crappy loopholes even on the books?
“Can someone please name ONE thing that the government ever took over and made better? “
Socialism.
The wussies will always be losers unless and until:
1) they realize the media is their enemy and will do everything they can to defeat them
2) they grow a pair
bttt
No need. We can barely see the toes of Snowe, Collins and Specter coming out of Obama’s rear end.
they are???? I don't hear this yet! sigh~
That old McCain “gang of 14” thing really bought us a lot of demonrat goodwill, huh?
Of course now that the Dems have their majorities it’s time to change the rules they insisted on when they were in the minority.
Okay, GOP - toe the conservative line, get our majorities back and when the libtards come crying for “fairness and power sharing” tell them to pound sand.
I do. They don’t admit it ouright (yet), but some are already wearing thin.
AMERICA'S NEW AXIS OF EVIL
Rino’s thank you.
Read #19. The government never “took over” the highways.
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