The Do-Nothing Senate: By The Numbers

ATR ^ | 2011-07-28 | Mattie Corrao

[92nina]

...Already, the Senate has shown signs that it will continue to defer its duty to act, pre-emptively deriding the House’s plan to avoid a debt default. If Senators actually refuse to pass the Budget Control Act, the only serious legislative proposal to end the debt limit stalemate, it will illustrate an unprecedented negligence by lawmakers. For the past few months, Senators have dithered over tax hikes and budget gimmicks. Voters and credit markets are tired of the charade – it’s time for the Senate to step up to the plate.

• 820…Number of days since the Senate passed a budget
• 0…Number of votes the President’s budget received in the Senate
• 0…Number of debt limit solutions that have been passed by the Senate
• 0…Number of strong enforcement mechanisms in the Reid bill that requires spending to stay under any statutory limits
• 2…number of years additional years the Reid plan would jettison the Senate’s responsibility to actually produce a budget resolution
• $1.2 trillion…Amount of false savings Senator Reid’s plan claims
• $2.7 trillion…amount by which the Reid plan increases the debt ceiling without any guaranteed spending restraint in return
• 67…the number of Senators the Reid bill requires to avoid tax hikes in 2013 on any American paying income taxes—not the current rules that dictate 60 votes are necessary.

Read more: http://www.atr.org/nothing-senate-numbers-a6373#ixzz1TVnbr8dx

[92nina]

The House is poised to pass another solution for the debt limit debate. Will the Senate pass up another opportunity to actually govern?

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious

[Paladin2]

Is Dingy collecting Social Security?

[onehipdad]

Right now, and for the last 20 minutes or so, the Senate chamber is empty on CSPAN2 while on CSPAN Reid, Schumer, Murray, et al are in the hall continuing their shrill mantra of Tea Party boogeymen. I'm leaning more and more to holding the line and doing nothing with these scoundrels and their scare tactics and business as usual.

If it ain't broke, break it anyway - THEN fix it!