Posted on 08/11/2011 9:55:32 AM PDT by 92nina
This week, the Senate Leadership has announced their appointments to the “Super Committee” created by the debt deal, which will be tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in savings by the end of the year. Senate Democrats have not passed a budget in over two years and failed to propose a real plan in the debt ceiling negotiations. Senator Reid’s appointments infer he is willing to defer duty for the country’s fiscal mess even longer; by naming DSCC Chairwoman Patty Murray and Senators John Kerry and Max Baucus, Reid has made clear that Senate Dems are prepared to continue to avoid responsibility for governing. Senator Murray, as the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman is clearly meant to mimic the Reid agenda and block any significant spending reform. Picking a big spender and the chief campaign fundraiser for Democrats in the Senate, Leader Reid seems intent to make a mockery of a serious effort to restore federal spending restraint. Unless Congress, specifically big spenders like Reid and Murray, are willing to come to terms with their addiction to overspending, there is no hope for restoring economic prosperity...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/senate-democrats-unwilling-serious-spending-a6398#ixzz1UjsStFwJ
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
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
what a joke....the whole thing....
Mmmm, this is news? Its been this way for how many decades?
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