Why would it be breathtaking to Sessions. It would be business as usual
for the Dems. If they don't come up with a budget proposal then they
can't be held responsible for it and that is the Dem MO - don't do
anything they can be held responsible for if they can help it.
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Dingbat Harry Reid: "There's no need to have a Democratic Budget,
in my opinion
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Coming from the party who failed to pass a budget in 2010 despite
having controll of the House, Senate and White House. Thank you Nevada
for electing the biggest moron to the Senate.
Byron York reports, via The Washington Examiner
<http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/dems-breathtaking-refusal-pass-budget>:
"Let’s see it,” a frustrated Sen. Jeff Sessions said on the Senate
floor Monday afternoon. “Let’s bring it forward.”
By “it,” Sessions meant a Democratic proposal for a 2012 federal
budget. In recent days Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate
Budget Committee, has been asking, pushing, pleading, cajoling and
begging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put forward a
Democratic plan. So far, Reid has steadfastly refused.
*That’s nothing new. The last time the Senate passed a budget was
April 29, 2009, which was, if you are counting — and Jeff Sessions
is — 755 days ago.*
The Democrats refused to pass a 2010 budget out of fear of hanging
another trillion-dollar plus deficit around the taxpayer's neck. They
also didn't want to pass one before the 2010 November midterm elections.
Passing a yearly budget for the federal government is a
fundamental responsibility of Congress. Lawmakers do not have to
spend their time naming post offices or passing health care
reform. But they do have to pass a budget. *In 2010, neither the
House nor the Senate did so.* It’s not that members just didn’t
get around to it, which would have been scandalous enough. No,
Reid and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi feared that passing a budget
would hurt their chances in the November midterm elections. So
they did nothing and took a beating at the polls anyway.
Now Pelosi is out of the picture. But Reid is still at it. The
Republican-controlled House has passed a budget, but Reid will not
produce a Democratic spending proposal. And if Reid doesn’t want
to pass a budget, then a budget won’t be passed; the majority
leader controls what is and what is not considered in the Senate.
*“There’s no need to have a Democratic budget, in my opinion,”*
Reid told the Los Angeles Times last week. *“It would be foolish
for us to do a budget at this stage.”* Instead, Reid wants to wait
to see if the deficit-reduction meetings led by Vice President
Biden bear any fruit. Before that, Reid wanted to wait for the
Gang of Six — now nearly defunct — to come up with something.
Sessions was appalled when he read Reid’s words. “It was a
fundamental statement that they’re playing politics,” Sessions
said. “They don’t think it’s politically smart to produce a
budget. They’d rather produce nothing and attack Paul Ryan and the
Republicans and think they’re going to gain politically by
avoiding their fundamental statutory responsibility. It’s pretty
breathtaking to me.”
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