Posted on 07/02/2010 6:15:43 AM PDT by opentalk
Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that “deemed as passed” a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the “deeming” document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.
The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.
Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.
House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) warned this was the green light for Democrats to continue their out-of-control spending virtually unchecked.
“Facing a record deficit and a tidal wave of debt, House Democrats decided it was politically inconvenient to put forward a budget and account for their fiscal recklessness. With no priorities and no restraints, the spending, taxing, and borrowing will continue unchecked for the coming fiscal year,” Ryan said. “The so-called ‘budget enforcement resolution’ enforces no budget, but instead provides a green light for the Appropriators to continue spending, exacerbating our looming fiscal crisis.”
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We’ll know your prediction will come true when Hussein deems that national security requires pulling the plug on FR, other conservative sites, and talk radio.
Overwhelm the system. The Gulf oil spill started in April. Obama is already on to other things, wont talk about it.
Boehner was on last night lambasting Obama, as was Brewer. Palin’s been at it since the election.
The Republicans are out of power. It’s that simple. Worse, most of them are so ‘centrist’ that it doesn’t even matter.
I’m not sure you understand that the Constitution IS WHAT’S AT STAKE. Eventually, if there are going to be elections in November, people are going to be asked whether the Constitution matters any more.
That’s what November is going to be. You can’t find any serious liberal who thinks what’s going on right now is according to plan. Clinton and Obama, for example, are at near open war with each other.
It’s gotten to the point where Hillary stopped talking up the Palestinians.
Things in this country have not started changing yet. Not really. We have no conception of what economic or political dislocation is, or looks like any more.
How many people are left from the depression that anyone takes seriously. Reading it in a book is a far different thing than living it.
My business partner grew up poor in Holland, and tells me that dinner was defined by the vegetable at night.
“What are we having tonight?” “Beets”
Every friday maybe there would be a cooked meatball or something.
This country has no idea what that looks like yet.
But, now there is no federal budget. There’s no extension to unemployment benefits. The budget is deemed passed.
Any impeachment you’d propose would take a vote. We’d lose - that simple.
No, what it is going to take is a politician being assassinated for the illusion of invincibility and insulation to shatter. I’m not proposing it be done, but nobody up there is going to take things seriously until a couple of them go back to their districts in boxes.
The UN is talking now about dumping the dollar. When the first politician dies, they will get very serious about it.
DC is its own world. Most of them, when they go home, they hang with their people, and its more of the same. That goes for both sides of the aisle.
What I absolutely agree with is that the Republicans have slipped into ‘learned helplessness’ mode, and that’s got to stop.
You will start to know when things are getting to the sticking point when middle class people stop using their computer to communicate, and start meeting in person instead. They’ll meet in homes and make their plans. They’ll wait until their reps come home, and they’ll take them out.
At that point, they’ll all just move in to DC for the duration, and their families will fly out to be with them. It’ll be true of both parties. Some will resign.
There are guys on Wall Street with bug out bags for the day it all happens. Every day now you are hearing about spot drops of 40% in one issue of a stock or another. System has been breached, and somebody is probing the NYSE. Nobody has a public explanation for it. Do you have any faith at all in a market like that?
Something bigger is going to fail. Why do you think the USG is asking for an internet kill switch? The internet, and forums like FreeRepublic are the news now.
Efficient, more accurate, lightning fast, and global.
US Congress...could give lessons to a Roman Senate...
Wee doggies..ain't that just exciting as all get out.
Like we will all be shocked now or something, after all the other crap he and his psycho ward escapees have done.
I also told him it was shameful to attach this to a war spending bill and that it was a shame that the House didn't have the balls to put up a budget and pass it like they normally do.
I finished be telling hem that at least one of the Congressman's constituents is watching what he is doing and that I didn't like what I was seeing.
You consent to giving up your rights to the corporation all the time, like when you fill out an IRS form or even use a zip code for your mail. That is why they think we are a joke.
They were going to take us for a ride either by stealth or by force...you are beginning to see the "force" part. They are emboldened...your rep is not likely going to cross these fascists to make you happy unless you bring a million people with you.
UNBELIEVABLE!
A faux budget passed by a faux Congress. Lies pass for reality until exposed to the light by a real man. In our case it will be a woman.
Let’s pretend we have a budget. Good! Now we can spend real money. We don’t have any? Let’s print some and pretend we did. It’s OK, our faux President said it’s alright.
What do we expect from a House being run by Pelosi and Barney Frank?
When a monarch deemed that a law be executed, he or she was ruling by decree.
Democrats are trying to rule by decree just like the old days when everyone had to simply obey and shut their mouths...or else.
Do I understand this correctly?
They passed a 1.1 Trillion dollar budget without a budget?
That is, did they just vote themselves the authority to fill in the blanks and spend 1.1 Trillion dollars in any way they see fit?
Someone please tell me I misunderstand what they did. Please.
Then shut up and bend over for Obama.
Capito
Griffith
Hoekstra
Johnson, Sam
Rodriguez
Wamp
Woolsey
Young (AK)
And Eric mAssa the homo was not voting, as his seat remains empty.
Me too...
Stephen Potter, (the author of Gamesmanship, or the art of winning without actually cheating) probably invented the term "deemcraft" e. g. "I deem my ball to lie on the fairway even though it landed in the rough."
so what admendments to the bil were passed as part of the package?
LOL!
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