Speaker Boehner and the Republican House are frustrated that they can't get President Obama or Senate leader Reid to compromise with them.-SNIP- Chicago's Mayor Daley I gained absolute power by gaining absolute control over the budget. Congress's authority to write a budget is determined not by a Home Rule Commission, but by the Constitution. But President Obama was able to cleverly subvert Congress's power of the purse this way: the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate has not passed a budget in four years. -SNIP-In effect, Obama cleverly usurped congressional budget authority, with the added benefit of eliminating a budgetary paper trail....
