And if we don’t have a GOP President and Senate majority-what then? Four more years of this?
It didn’t do a bit of good for the Republican House to pass Ryan’s budget; it got shot down in the Senate. I don’t see anyone blaming the Senate for the mess we’re in now.
Worse.
It didn’t do a bit of good for the Republican House to pass Ryan’s budget; it got shot down in the Senate. I don’t see anyone blaming the Senate for the mess we’re in now.
"Ryan's budget" was a budget guideline -- not "the budget".
The House passes a budget guideline every year; the Senate has no particular need for one -- since, by law, budgets originate in the House.
Putting the House's budget guideline up for a vote in the Senate was strictly a stunt -- Reid and everybody else knew it would be defeated by a Democrat majority. But the act was without meaning. The real test will come when the actual departmental budgets that are based on the Ryan guidelines are passed by the House and sent to the Senate.
And, like real spending cuts, implementation of Ryan's budget guideline is going to have to wait until there is a GOP Senate and Barack Obama is not President.
Right now, with control of only the Housel the GOP's job is limited to stopping what Obama and the Democrats have been doing.
We're not going to be able to start a turnaround until after the 2012 election.