Posted on 04/14/2010 9:44:41 PM PDT by JohnRLott
A few months after moving into the White House, President Obama promised to reduce the large deficit in 2010 and continue reducing it further in 2011. This promise was broken, and the deficit in 2010 is expected to be approximately $200 billion more than in 2009. This creates political danger for Democrats, as the party in power is reluctant to acknowledge its stewardship of worsening budget problems with midterm elections coming in November. As a result, congressional Democrats are shying away from a vote on this year's budget resolution, causing chaos to the federal budgeting process.
Avoiding a budget resolution would be unprecedented. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Paul Ryan mentioned this on Greta last night. No budget. Couldn’t believe it.
“is reluctant to acknowledge its stewardship”
Stewardship presumes that you are making decisions.
“...unprecedented. . .”
A favorite word of the Zero.
Well, Obama is certainly the Un-President.
I see a Tea Party sign.. “Where’s the Budget?”
I had no clue that congress could get away without passing a budget. What is used as the blueprint? The Obama budget?
At some level, I thought that all expenditures had to be approved by congress. What am I missing?
Any debate will be on C-Span - won't it?
Unfortunately, there is precedent, including by Republicans.
The Washington Times is wrong? A budget resolution has not been passed before? When?
“is reluctant to acknowledge its stewardship”
Stewardship presumes that you are making decisions.
Stewardship means you are accepting responsibility.
Silly wabbit, responsibility is for Republicans!
“House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, justifies not passing a budget resolution. He claims Democratic inaction is the fault of “deep debt” caused by the George W. Bush administration”
BUSH’s FAULT. 15 months out of office and that stupid cowboy George Bush is still running the cuntry and rendering the democrats helpless, isnt he
Everything, literally everything, is the Republicans' fault now. If only the Republicans would quit the field and surrender the entire government to Pelosi, Obama, and the Democrats, maybe something could get done that could pull them out of their financial ditch, turn the economy around, get jobs back, "get everything going again" -- but the Republicans have to quit and roll over. No more policy differences, they don't want to hear about airy-fairy principles and constitutions and economic theories and tax policies.
They are so afraid, they've literally quit thinking. They've quit listening and react with hostility to any different opinion.
This is what Obama and his accomplices are counting on, to give them unshakable power over the electorate -- fear.
Clinton and Daschle started it by cutting off the government checks in 1995 -- as soon as the 'Rats got a real political challenge, Daschle in particular went for the jugular (cutting off the checks was his idea). And Obama was Daschle's candidate for the nomination.
“If only the Republicans would quit the field and surrender the entire government to Pelosi, Obama, and the Democrats, maybe something could get done that could pull them out of their financial ditch, turn the economy around, get jobs back, “get everything going again.”
This is no different then under FDR. Frankly, I see the same up here. However, some of us will always be fighting the good fight, but I have to admit it’s much easier when you work for yourself and aren’t under debt.
Wasn’t it Hayek who observed that debt is slavery?
Was it “unexpected”?
I don't know, but it isn't just debt -- it's fear.
My interlocutor referred a couple of times to the fact that I wasn't up against it like she is (she's been saddled all her life with a spendthrift mother -- but has remained with her through thick and thin, which has tended to enable her mother's spending, and burdened her doubly: financially, and morally, as it's made it harder for her to keep her discipline about savings). So she recognizes that her circumstances are shaping her response, but she hasn't enough intellectual integrity and enough learning about political history in the U.S. to recognize that she's being driven like cattle by the Daschles and Emanuels and Hillarys. She can feel the desperation, but she can't recognize the walls of the cattle chute for what they are.
She's my friend, so it's sad. I have another friend, more successful (comptroller for a medium-sized industrial company) who is much better able to keep a perspective, and she sees my friends' derangement for what it is. Her daughter is younger (works at the same firm in the trenches), but she bought a house four or five years ago, is independent, and likewise is quite conservative and isn't having any of the DemonRats' necromantic snake-oil narrative.
Wonder if we should stage an "intervention" for my stricken and 'Rat-plantation enslaved friends? "Friends don't let friends slave for the 'Rats"? Something like that?
It would be awfully stormy. Could end a friendship or two.
Someone needs to fix that graphic.
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