1. Balance within ten years (without accounting gimmicks),
sounded ok til this, the Budget is ANNUAL not 10 years, Balanced IMMEDIATELY is the answer because 10 years DOES NOT EXIST.
I think that Sen. Lee might argue that politics is the art of the possible.
Agreed. But also, didn’t Harry Reid’s party have it such that the minority party couldn’t add amendments to bills? If I understand it correctly, it sounds like Mike Lee is going all in on the time-honored tradition of Republican capitulation, but softening the rules once Democrats are in the minority:
“Members will have to expose themselves to inconvenient amendment votes.”
He’s already out of touch if he’s bought in on the old GOPe canard that voters are upset with ungentlemanly parliamentary procedure in Congress and want the GOP to be nicer to the Dems than the Dems ever have been or will be to the GOP.
Sigh.