new talking point It's the Dem's fault for not passing a budget in 2009

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sasha031  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Apr-07-11 07:23 PM
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new talking point It's the Dem's fault for not passing a budget in 2009
   
over in CNN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x838363

Hey if Pelosi would have done her constitutional duty and submitted a budget last year, there would be no arguing about the current budget. It would have been a done deal and we wouldn't have a say until we submit the new budget.

Proud Liberal Dem  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Apr-07-11 07:25 PM
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2. 2009?   Updated at 4:43 PM
   
Edited on Thu Apr-07-11 07:25 PM by Proud Liberal Dem
What does that have to do with now? The government has fully been in operation since then. I guess they've obviously been funding it somehow? Didn't the Dems try to pass a budget last year but it was (surprise, surprise) filibustered by the Republicans?

I don't recall the GOP filibustering the budget.

Curmudgeoness  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Apr-07-11 07:30 PM
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5. I have been hearing this on local talk radio too.
   
Well, not 2009, but 2010.

Gotta say, we probably should have passed the budget on time, because this is a cluster with them in control.

 

[BlueStateSaint]

Proud Liberal Dem  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Apr-07-11 07:25 PM
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2. 2009?   Updated at 4:43 PM
   
Edited on Thu Apr-07-11 07:25 PM by Proud Liberal Dem
What does that have to do with now? The government has fully been in operation since then. I guess they've obviously been funding it somehow? Didn't the Dems try to pass a budget last year but it was (surprise, surprise) filibustered by the Republicans?

Umm . . . the Dems had a fillibuster-proof majority.  Major fail.

[NHSparky]

My, these DUmmies seem to have a bit of a gross conceptual error when it comes to budgets and the Constitution.

Here's a little bit of a hint for ya, DUmbasses--the HOUSE (you know, what you ran until January) is where all spending and appropriation bills originate.  Yes, I know, the president submits a budget PROPOSAL, but it's merely a guideline and the HOUSE, per Article I, Section 8, is the government body that actually APPROVES the bill and APPROPRIATES the money.  They control the purse strings.

Second, you cannot filibuster in the House, only in the Senate.

[DLR Pyro]

sasha031  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Apr-07-11 07:23 PM
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new talking point It's the Dem's fault for not passing a budget in 2009

the truth hurts.

Suck on it DUmmies

[franksolich]

My, these DUmmies seem to have a bit of a gross conceptual error when it comes to budgets and the Constitution.

Here's a little bit of a hint for ya, DUmbasses--the HOUSE (you know, what you ran until January) is where all spending and appropriation bills originate.  Yes, I know, the president submits a budget PROPOSAL, but it's merely a guideline and the HOUSE, per Article I, Section 8, is the government body that actually APPROVES the bill and APPROPRIATES the money.  They control the purse strings.

Second, you cannot filibuster in the House, only in the Senate.

But it's pointless to try and illuminate the primitives how it works.

One of the smartest, most intelligentest, persons on the internet, a primitive on Skins's island, for example, a couple of years ago asked why, if the Big Zero was having so many problems with Bela Pelosi and Scary Harry, the Big Zero just didn't fire them and hire a new Speaker and leader of the majority in the Senate.

I kid you not.