A Look Back on Democrats' "Leadership" On Spending [Broken Record of Dems]

ATR ^ | 2011-03-10 | Mattie Corrao

[92nina]

As the government enters its sixth month without a spending plan for the 2011 Fiscal Year, Democrat lawmakers are wearing taxpayers’ patience thin on their resolutions of seriousness about federal spending. A look at how they’ve dragged their feet shows why:

October 1, 2010: The beginning of the FY 2011 Fiscal Year. Not a single appropriations bill for the year has been passed, and a budget has not even been proposed. The House and Senate pass Continuing Resolution (CR) #1 a few days earlier, kicking the can down the road on spending decisions for FY 2011.

December 3, 2010: The expiration of CR #1. Congress passes CR #2 before the deadline, extending unsustainable FY 2010 spending levels for another two weeks.

December 8, 2010: Democrats craft a monstrous 400 page CR #3, packaging an FDA bill with a funding measure that would maintain reckless FY 2010 spending levels for the rest of the year, replete with hundreds of wasteful earmarks.

December 18, 2010: Not content with their grab-bag of pork in CR #3, Democrats craft a “Cromnibus” bill, packaging the FY 2011 appropriations bills into a pork-filled spending extravaganza, replete with over 7,000 earmarks. Unable to gain support in his own caucus, Leader Reid fails to even bring the measure to the floor...

Read more: http://www.atr.org/look-back-democrats-leadership-spending-a5930#ixzz1GKK3s76k

[92nina]

Ah the favorite weapon of the Left, massive volumes of paperwork.

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[screaminsunshine]

Democrat=Criminal