Posted on 10/18/2011 5:33:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
Budget: Over the weekend, Senate Democrats passed a dubious milestone — going 900 days without fulfilling their legal obligation to pass a budget. Worse is the fact that this gross dereliction of duty has gone largely unnoticed.
You have to go all the way back to April 29, 2009 — just three months after President Obama took the oath of office — to find the last time Senate Democrats managed to discharge their legal obligation to produce a budget plan.
That's right — legal obligation. It says right in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 that the Senate must produce a budget resolution by April of each year.
Instead, all the country has gotten from Senate Democrats are excuses.
In May, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said "it would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage," since the so-called Gang of Six was working with Vice President Biden to come up with a debt reduction deal.
In early July, Republicans sent a letter to Reid asking where the Democrats' budget was. Turns out, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., had a plan ready to be unveiled, but Reid forced him to keep it locked up. Ostensibly that was because of the then-ongoing debt ceiling talks.
Democrats did, however, find the time in May to force a vote on the House Republican budget plan, but only in hopes of embarrassing their Senate counterparts.
Obama's hardly been any better. His latest budget was so outrageously irresponsible that the entire Senate, including every single Democrat, voted against it.
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Easy—Toss ‘em all in le hoosegow and let ‘em rot.
The press and GOP ignores it. What difference does it make if no one can or will do anything about it?
Why don’t you little people shut the hell up and pay your taxes?
/sarc(?)
The Demwit majority in the Senate also failed to support Zero’s fake jobs bill.
900? It’s been tens of thousands of days since that party has acted “responsibly”.
True, but it has been 900 days since dingy Harry submitted a budget plan
No Budget!
No Peas!
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