and America takes another one in the........
Posted on 06/22/2010 8:38:53 AM PDT by skimbell
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-MD) announcement this morning that House Democrats will not pass a budget this year – failing to fulfill what he has called “the most basic responsibility” of governing...
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Right on. A budget would expose the trillions of dollars in debt we are faced with, the government waste, stupid earmarks, the increased taxes the pigs will need to force out of all of us, and make for bad campaign ads. So the Dems will dinck around with this till after November.
Uh, how can one build a budget when there is no money at the same time Onada and his band of angry commies intends to borrow money it cannot repay so that it can continue spending.
Isn’t passing a budget a statutory requirement?
Nevermind.
According to this http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/92237-house-has-passed-budget-resolution-every-year-since-budget-act-according-to-study, the budget rules are “non-binding”.
The budget process is described in statutes. See Chapter 11 of Title 31; 31 USC 1101 et seq. But since the budget statute is basically a form of "rule" for how Congress will conduct its affairs, failure to abide by its own rules has no statutory penalty.
In other words, if there is a statutory requirement, "so what?"
A budget process is not a constitutional requirement - all the constitution provides is a (supposedly limited) grant of powers to Congress, the executive, and federal courts.
It’s just you.
As conspiracy theory as that sounds, it is just step one of cancelling elections.
Sorry, we have no budget today...
If the Republicans had any sense at how angry people are at Washington they would run $20 million in advertising telling the story of the budget signed two days after the inauguration of Obama, one 20% higher than any by GWB, and then they would tell them that they are using a TRICK to run the government on the same budget...without voting.
No budget - NO CONGRESS
If there is no budget, then money cannot be spent. Can some lawyer file suit to stop spending that is not authorized. Bring this government to its knees.
Budget?! We don't need no steenkin' budget!
“Then they can’t go overbudget.......................”
Exactly. Open wallet.
Under normal circumstances, it's House of Reps who brings the charges and the Senate that does the trial. Given the bozos infesting the Capitol building, though, I'm thinking citizens with pitchforks (and .357 Magnums?) would be the better choice.
Doesn’t matter. The president has been spending money without congressional approval.
He sent hundreds of millions to the Palestinians.
He declared by executive fiat that same sex roommates of homosexual federal employees get government benefits.
We have a king. This is not constitutional.
and America takes another one in the........
Obama also has created czars. Anyone think they are working for free?
Spelling it “cancelled” is only correct in the UK and other countries with Queen Elizabeth on their currency (where they also spell words such as “travelling” and “labour”). In America, it’s spelled “canceled.” Maybe that’s why “cancelled” didn’t “look right” to you.
;-)
Sadly I believe this country is in the "Final Jeopardy Round" and the best prize we can hope for is voting Obama out of office.
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