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Obama budget receives zero votes in Senate ["Not a single Democrat voted for it....]
The Hill ^

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Arkansas; US: Illinois; US: Kentucky; US: Maine; US: Massachusetts; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: arkansas; budget; congress; illinois; kentucky; maine; massachusetts; obama; obamabudget; randpaul; ryanbudget; wisconsin
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Fire them all.............
1 posted on 05/25/2011 4:56:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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2 posted on 05/25/2011 4:57:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Sub-Driver

Zero for Zero.


3 posted on 05/25/2011 5:03:14 PM PDT by JPG (Bibi 1, O'Hamas 0.)
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Fire them all.............

We have that option on a periodic schedule and yet we have clueless yet self centered "LIFER" politicians destroying the country with 20-45 year careers to practice.

Go figure...

4 posted on 05/25/2011 5:04:14 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Sub-Driver

One question. Who were the 5 pubbies who voted against it?


5 posted on 05/25/2011 5:04:46 PM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh, come ON, all you Dems!! Your littel marxist Shoeshine Boy needs your help here!!!

Damn, but they were quick to jump all over and sign ANYTHING he crapped out to them when they ran the whole schmagaggie, weren’ they?

Bunch of cowardly turds.

But then again...they never do anything without an underlying purpose. Maybe more here than simple re-election jitters.


6 posted on 05/25/2011 5:07:50 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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The Five Failed the Nation!


7 posted on 05/25/2011 5:07:50 PM PDT by devistate one four ( Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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You have to ask? Let me guess, Collins, snowe, murkowski, brown.. The 5th, anyone?


8 posted on 05/25/2011 5:08:35 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Who is John Galt)
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To: Sub-Driver

As Speaker Tip O’Neill would say, it’s Dead On Arrival!


9 posted on 05/25/2011 5:12:29 PM PDT by RJL
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The 5th was Rand Paul.


10 posted on 05/25/2011 5:14:27 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: EQAndyBuzz

The 5th was Rand Paul.


11 posted on 05/25/2011 5:14:36 PM PDT by Gideon7
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"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."

"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 RINOs voted against their with the Democrat party."

Fixed it for you!

12 posted on 05/25/2011 5:16:53 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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“The 5th, anyone?”

Rand Paul, because it doesn’t cut enough.


13 posted on 05/25/2011 5:19:46 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: FrogMom

Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, independent Lisa Murkowski (Ak.), and staunch libertarian Rand Paul (Ky.)


14 posted on 05/25/2011 5:31:51 PM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Sure, there was at least one earlier topic, and sure, I’ve pinged that one, but I never tire of hearing about stuff like this. Thanks Sub-Driver!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2725112/posts


15 posted on 05/25/2011 5:32:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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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.

A goal which meant absolutely nothing...


16 posted on 05/25/2011 5:35:57 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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He still is handing out billions like party favors, thie means nothing.


17 posted on 05/25/2011 5:37:08 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, independent Lisa Murkowski (Ak.), and staunch libertarian Rand Paul (Ky.).


18 posted on 05/25/2011 5:37:39 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15:1-4 Believe it!)
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where he established a goal of cutting $4 trillion over the next 12 years.

That is 4 tril of the 20 tril "expected increase" which has been pumped up by an extra 6 tril in anticipation of announcing a 4 tril "cut." The net is a 2 tril increase in total outlay over what would have been expected had there been no perceived necessity to announce cuts.

19 posted on 05/25/2011 5:41:42 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Gator113

My God, talk about a rogues gallery.

As for not one demrat voting for The Usurping Marxist Onada’s budget—what gives? Me thinks it’s all about enlightened self preservation. November is coming and the demrats are scared. I wonder how they’ll spin their no vote crap out?


20 posted on 05/25/2011 5:45:42 PM PDT by dools0007world
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