Posted on 05/25/2011 4:56:01 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama budget receives zero votes in Senate By Jordan Fabian - 05/25/11 06:14 PM ET
No senators voted for President Obama's 2012 budget when it came up for a vote in the Senate Wednesday.
A procedural vote to move forward on the president's plan failed 0-97.
Just minutes earlier, the Senate failed to advance Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan by a vote of 40-57, a vote on which five Republicans voted against their party.
Democrats sought to put Republicans on the defensive over the Ryan budget, which they have described as extreme. But Republicans, who demanded a vote on Obama's plan, sought to flip the script after the later vote.
"The Senate just voted unanimously against proceeding to the president’s budget. That’s right, unanimous opposition to the president’s budget that spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much," said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) "Not a single Democrat voted for it. We’d vote on the Democrats’ budget, too…but they don’t have one."
Obama followed his budget plan earlier this year with a speech at George Washington University, where he established a goal of cutting $4 trillion over the next 12 years.
IRRC Obama said he would cut the debt in half by the end of his first term...
Nothing but spend borrow tax spend borrow tax.
Gee what didn’t they like?
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Fire them all............. no lets use this as a teaching moment, double down. Double all the cuts to the budget.
graham probably.
LLS
What is hard to figure?
Politics is a profession and generally professionals beat amateurs. Something like the legislature has intricate rules and procedures which require decades to master. This is why seniority becomes so important in the Senate and House. And why parlimentarian experts like Byrd and Hatch and others stay so powerful for so long.
This is not amateur business and never has been contrary to the popular, naive view that we would benefit from electing those who have never served in any substantial office. EVERY ONE of our former presidents had either long political experience or led victorious armies in war.
Our Founding Father were all extensively involved in state and local politics long before the nation declared its independence. This tradition won’t change and for good reason.
Scott Brown (Mass.),
I’m going to call his office tomorrow and tell him I want my contribution back. My butt is sore from kicking it so much.
Same here.
I'm sure the NYT is running that Headline as we speak.
This is a very smart move by the dems. - And it also shows their lockstep unity on these matters. -
Obama & the dems had to have had this one planned so he could say I sent in a great budget but its locked up in the Senate.
Meanwhile they use the 5th column to attack everything that the pubs do & highlight the splits in the GOP.
Win win all the way. We could use some of that acumen in our party...
Rand Paul - ostensibly because it didn’t go far enough.
Perfect example of the perfect being the enemy of the (sort-of) good.
Murkowski is not a Republican, she bought the judges to steal the election from the republican.
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