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(Democrat Controlled) Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote (Blast to the past)
The Hill ^ | 5/16/2012 | By Erik Wasson and Daniel Strauss

Posted on 08/11/2012 9:22:28 AM PDT by tobyhill

A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday.

In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators present rejected the president’s blueprint.

It’s the second year in a row the Senate has voted down Obama’s budget.

Obama's 2012 budget failed 97 to 0 last May after Obama himself last April said he wanted deeper deficit cuts.

The House earlier this year unanimously rejected Obama's budget.

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1 posted on 08/11/2012 9:22:36 AM PDT by tobyhill
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“We need to end our out-of-control spending, our trillion dollar annual deficits, and the attitude that taxing more and spending more is the answer,” Brown said. “To do that, we need to work together, Democrats and Republicans.”

Uhh, Yo, Scott, working together is how we GOT worked over for another $6 Trillion in debt by Inauguration Day.

Bipartisan: synonym meaning Date Rape.


2 posted on 08/11/2012 9:32:55 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: tobyhill

make that into an ad!


3 posted on 08/11/2012 9:36:10 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: Bulwinkle
It will be in the campaign. Everytime Obama or Biden start the “Ryan Budget Plan bad” then the simple response should be “Obama’s budget got rejected 99-0 in a Democrat Controlled Senate”.
4 posted on 08/11/2012 9:53:34 AM PDT by tobyhill (Obamacare, the final nail in the US coffin.)
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