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To: Wisconsinlady
"The plan aims to draw the Senate into action to shrink deficits. The Senate has failed to pass a formal budget resolution in nearly four years, and it has taken no action on House-passed Republican budgets.

Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate's Republican minority leader, said in a statement he welcomed the pressure on his Democratic counterparts who had "prevented this body from performing its most basic of duties: passing a federal budget."

37 posted on 01/19/2013 12:16:56 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Own it.)
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So the key here will be to have Ryan front and center reciting the number of times (and the vote counts as well) that the GOP passed budget bills in the past two years, then recount the corresponding votes in the Senate to defeat those House budget bills.

"Mr. and Mrs. America have a yearly household budget. They have reduced spending to stave off insolvency. Why can't the White House do the same?"

38 posted on 01/19/2013 12:29:05 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Own it.)
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