On 05/24/2011 07:25 PM, Travis wrote:
Dingbat Harry Reid: "There's no need to have a Democratic Budget, in my opinion
Scotty Starnes | May 24, 2011 at 1:36 PM | Tags: 2010 budget, Democratic budget, Harry Reid, Jeff Session, Paul Ryan, Senate | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5jcComing 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:
"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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