[BobL]

This kind of crap annoys the hell out of me.

The Dems did have a budget the past 4 years, how do you think the government operated during that time - it certainly wasn’t under Ryan’s budgets. Yes, they had a budget, but no, they didn’t put it out for all to see months ahead - they just waited until it needed to be passed, and then it was passed.

And those budgets had deficits on the order of $1.5T each year...and maybe they missed that also?

[shelterguy]

They passed budgets? Interesting.

[okie01]

The Dems did have a budget the past 4 years, how do you think the government operated during that time - it certainly wasn’t under Ryan’s budgets. Yes, they had a budget, but no, they didn’t put it out for all to see months ahead - they just waited until it needed to be passed, and then it was passed.

NO budgets were passed over the past four years -- except by the House.

In the absence of budgets, spending was automatically controlled by the Current Services Baseline -- the previous year's budget, adjusted upward by a specified percentage. The arrangement is an artifact of the Carter administration -- and, as planned by Harry Reid, it kept the Republican House from having any meaningful say regarding appropriations and expenditures since they gained a majority effective January, 2011.