Hours after budget rollouts, Politico declares GOP impasse, “cataclysmic” consequences

hot air ^ | March 19, 2015 | Ed Morrissey

[george76]

The Republican-led House passed budget resolutions every year since taking control in the 2010 midterms, while Senate Democrats under Harry Reid refused to pass any at all for four years. After less than 24 hours, though, a Republican “failure” to come up with an agreement between the House and the Senate is not just “cataclysmic” already, but proof that the GOP can’t handle the “basic functions of governing.” Republicans handled it for four years while Democrats failed to perform the basic function of legislating, but somehow that didn’t get seen as “cataclysmic” for them at Politico.

Maybe Politico’s analysts could wait more than a calendar day to set off the Cataclysm Alert.

[dila813]

How many years did the Democrats not pass a budget? 6?

[skinkinthegrass]

hot air = *fart!*

[oldbrowser]

Politico declares GOP impasse, “cataclysmic” consequences

I'm sure that politico had decided it was “cataclysmic” before the budget was even released.

This type of media is living in an upside down world. The partisanship has become so intense that it borders on insanity.

[SunkenCiv]

The Republican-led House passed budget resolutions every year since taking control in the 2010 midterms, while Senate Democrats under Harry Reid refused to pass any at all for four years. After less than 24 hours, though, a Republican “failure” to come up with an agreement between the House and the Senate is not just “cataclysmic” already, but proof that the GOP can’t handle the “basic functions of governing.”