Why didn't congress pass a budget this year?

[thundley4]

littlewolf (520 posts)           Fri Dec-31-10 09:47 PM
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Remind me why the Democratic party did not pass a budget this year ...
   
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/135451-bud...

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The proposed rule would allow the Budget Committee chairman to set spending ceilings for 2011 without a vote by the full House. By approving the rules package, the House would give authority to the new Budget panel chairman to set budget ceilings at a later time and his decision would not be subject to an up-or-down vote on the floor.

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In practice, this would give power to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the incoming chairman of the panel, to impose deep spending cuts since spending bills cannot exceed the budget ceiling for the 2011 fiscal year.

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Republicans argue allowing the Budget chairman to set spending ceilings is necessary because of the failure of the last Congress to approve a budget last year.
“This provision is only necessary because of Democrats’ historic failure to pass a budget last year. They have nothing but their own ineptitude to blame for this temporary authority,” Brendan Buck, a spokesman for the House Republican transition, said in response to the Van Hollen statement.

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Freeper troll

Only one post, and I don't think the DUmmies will fall for this. They'd have to admit that Obama and the Dems  up.  Obama never sent a proposed budget, did he?

notesdev (1000+ posts)             Fri Dec-31-10 09:51 PM
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1. Why do they need to?
   
The Bernank is doing all the spending anyway, and he doesn't need any silly vote to do it.

Evading the question while shifting the blame. Obama also uses that tactic quite often.

[Traveshamockery]

The DUmmie has a poor memory - they were too busy passing the liberal wet dream utopia known as health care, financial reform, and cap and tax.  We all know liberals don't believe in budgets.  When they want to spend more, they just tax more. 

[thundley4]

RandomThoughts   (1000+ posts)             Fri Dec-31-10 09:54 PM
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2. Great comment.
   
Edited on Fri Dec-31-10 10:05 PM by RandomThoughts
Temporary authority. The reason they filibusterer is they think that the things trying to get something done are going to stop, or move on to something else.

They are trying to wait out better, in a world that does get better.

Really interesting concept.

Of coarse it is either a game of chicken or a dance marathon depending how you see it.

And since they have luxury in life, they think they will hold out longer then those having hardship created by them.


They are fighting class warfare as a dance marathon while trying to shot peoples legs.


All so they can live in anarchy. Side note, I am not saying the budget was good, so not talking about Republicans specifically, but the groupings of people with capability to correct things that do not, or the filters that keep them from seeing it.


Let me help them out, the side that has no luxury, has nothing to lose, so you can't wait them out. And as they create more hardship, they create more people they have to try and hurt or break.

It is so obvious.


They may be going on cyclical astrology also, if they think that is how it works, they may be trying to weather a storm they think will turn before correcting what needs correcting.

 

This has to be a troll.

[JohnnyReb]

John Spratt (my rep) didn't do his job...and finally got defeated.

[miskie]

Congress didn't pass a budget this year because they had elections to win and knew that throwing around even more money would cost them more seats than they lost without one. Then they tried to ram one through during the lame duck sessions and failed.

[Randy]

They porked away 1.1 trillion dollars extending the tax rate. Why did they need to pass a budget? They already ****ed us numerous times, even DC knows they can only get away with it just so many times in a year.

[JohnnyReb]

John Spratt (my rep) didn't do his job...and finally got defeated.

John Spratt was chairman of the budget committee.....Mick Mulvaney defeated him in the Nov. elections....anyway, a fellow I grew up with and raised right down the road from me is going to be Micks' chief of staff....gave several of us the # for direct line to our new representative. 

I promised I wouldn't abuse it...... ....a politician ain't the only one that can tell a lie.