History in the making: Dems Refuse To Present a Budget

[bonnie]

May 22, 2010

History in the making: Dems Refuse To Present a Budget

Rick Moran

As we all know, Barack Obama likes to make history. It pleases him immensely that he's the first African American president. He nearly swooned at the podium when he announced the "historic" passage of national health insurance reform. And his sweeping "FinReg" bill brought out that word again - history - as it was also the first time that a president made such an announcement as a rat scurried in front of his teleprompter.

There's "history" - and then there's history.

I wonder what he thinks of his Democratic colleagues who, for the first time in history, refusing to present a budget for consideration by Congress?

By some estimates, we need to find $107 trillion over the next 75 years to fund all our promises. In the next 10 years alone, deficits will exceed $10 trillion - lifting annual debt payments by 300% to more than $900 billion a year.

Given such a grim outlook, Congress should be in crisis mode, right? Wrong. In fact, our representatives have never been more frivolous, playing on like the band in the ballroom of the Titanic, sawing on their instruments as the ocean pours in.

Despite their overwhelming majority in Congress, Democrats can't even come up with a budget. And as they dither, the fiscal picture gets worse.

Last year's shortfall of $1.4 trillion, we were told, would shrink as trillions of dollars in stimulus and bailout spending kicked in. Sorry. This year's gap will likely be even bigger.

Clearly, the only way to stop the slide is to slash spending. Yet the Hill quotes Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., as saying the chances of a budget being passed at all this year are "fading."

Not passing a budget would be, as the Hill notes, "unprecedented." So why is such a scenario even possible? Democrats don't want to pass anything that would recognize what a mess they've made of our nation's finances since they regained power in 2006.

Any budget they pass will have to tell the awful truth - that their spending has locked in deficits and debt as far as the eye can see. So they do nothing, whiling away the hours with measures such as House Resolution 1297, sponsored by Rep. Betsy Markey, D-Colo., in support of "American Craft Beer Week."

We are in deep, deep trouble and the Democrats are playing a child's game of "Pretend." They are pretending that all is well and that not introducing a budget is normal. Meanwhile, the deficit is skyrocketing, the stim bill is a failure, and whatever continuing resolutions the Democrats will pass to keep the government going over the next 5 months will no doubt add to the deficit.

Would someone please give these children some adult supervision?

[karl]

In the next 10 years alone, deficits will exceed $10 trillion - lifting annual debt payments by 300% to more than $900 billion a year.

Given such a grim outlook, Congress should be in crisis mode...

Despite their overwhelming majority in Congress, Democrats can't even come up with a budget. And as they dither, the fiscal picture gets worse.

Last year's shortfall of $1.4 trillion, we were told, would shrink as trillions of dollars in stimulus and bailout spending kicked in. Sorry. This year's gap will likely be even bigger.

Clearly, the only way to stop the slide is to slash spending. ...

Not passing a budget would be, as the Hill notes, "unprecedented." So why is such a scenario even possible? Democrats don't want to pass anything that would recognize what a mess they've made of our nation's finances since they regained power in 2006.

Any budget they pass will have to tell the awful truth...

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Get RID of 'em. Quickly!

Folks, if we don't know to vote conservative yet, what will it take to convince us????????

[karl]

BONNIE

WELL so now they don't want to pass a budget because

they don't want to let the people know that they

put this country in a big mess......

1s it to late for them to admit they make a mess???

No, it is too early. They have to be out of office before they start, and even then it will be a rewrite of history which completely exonerates themselves.

[Dr. Shane]

Rick Moran is a Libertarian, not a conservative. He is a blogger. His opinion shouldn't be valued with any greater respect than those of our own members here. Basically, he is a talking head and not even for the conservative movement.

[karl]

Rick Moran is a Libertarian, not a conservative. He is a blogger. His opinion shouldn't be valued with any greater respect than those of our own members here. Basically, he is a talking head and not even for the conservative movement.

What difference does it make "what" Rick Moran is? Can you not evaluate what he wrote based on what he wrote?

It wouldn't make any difference if he were a two-headed pygmy. What Moran wrote is what we are discussing here, not what he is.

[Dr. Shane]

What he wrote is alarmist and lacks a historical perspective. Of course I am going to consider the source of any criticism. I could read the same criticism about Israel from Pat Buchanan and President Ahmadinejad but wouldn't take it seriously from Ahmadinejad. The source makes a difference.

[bonnie]

Los Angeles Times,have they turned blogger? I have read it there as well

What he wrote is alarmist and lacks a historical perspective. Of course I am going to consider the source of any criticism. I could read the same criticism about Israel from Pat Buchanan and President Ahmadinejad but wouldn't take it seriously from Ahmadinejad. The source makes a difference.

[karl]

Of course I am going to consider the source of any criticism.

Concern yourself with principles rather than personalities, Shane. It works.

House Democratic leaders said late last week that there are several ways to set spending levels, suggesting they could move ahead with a deeming resolution rather than a full budget plan.

Like an actual budget measure, the deeming resolution would set the discretionary spending levels for the next fiscal year. But unlike a budget resolution, the deeming resolution would allow Democrats to avoid laying out their fiscal policies for 2011 and beyond.

Republicans have noted that the House has never failed to consider a budget resolution since the current budget rules were put in place in 1974.

[Dr. Shane]

Concern yourself with principles rather than personalities, Shane.

[karl]

Originally Posted By: bonnie

Republicans have noted that the House has never failed to consider a budget resolution since the current budget rules were put in place in 1974.

Now that is interesting. Why didn't Rick Moran mention that? Hmmmmm,,, veeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy inteeeeeeeeeerrrrrreeeeeeeeeesssssssssstttttttttinnnnnnnnngggggggg.

So is this unprecedented or not? What was done prior to 1974? I am interested about the process during WW2.

Pick at a word - as if that would change the point. Do you get the point or are you trying to avoid it the way the Dems are trying to avoid a Budget Resolution?

Congress has been late in the past, but there hasn't been this attempt to sidestep it completely.

More Liberal transparency!!!

[Dr. Shane]

Congress has been late in the past, but there hasn't been this attempt to sidestep it completely.

Is that true? What about before 1974?