Posted on 03/07/2011 11:28:16 AM PST by 92nina
Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee released its Continuing Resolution that would fund government through the end of the 2011 Fiscal Year, ending September 30. While Democrats have pledged to meet House Republicans "halfway," their version of a seven month funding measure comes nowhere close. The House-passed CR cuts over $60 billion in spending – the Senate Democrat version cuts a paltry $10 billion, preserving the bloated spending status quo.
It is particularly unbelievable that, after refusing to pass a budget and forcing government to operate on stop-gap funding measures for the first five months of the fiscal year, Senate Democrats refuse to offer significant spending cuts. While Senate leadership has been quick to quip their plan includes “commonsense cuts,” Democrats have all but ignored the billions in savings reported by GAO this week which could easily be realized by simply eliminating redundancies in the federal government, such as...
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The can probably find that much under the sofa cushions in the Congressional lounge!
Republicans, and conservatives in general, are missing a golden opportunity to point out why all these continuing resolutions are even necessary in the first place. The problem is the Democrats who were in charge of Congress and had the White House failed to pass a budget as required by law and as required of any group that would pretend to claim the mantle of leaders.
Just imagine if the shoe were on the other foot and it was the Republicans who had held both houses and the White House and couldn’t even get enough on the ball to pass a budget.
What is there about Republicans that makes them to totally inept at putting the blame where it belongs and then taking advantage of the situation?
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