‘Real News From The Blaze’: Senate Democrats Are Ignoring the Budget……Again
- Posted on April 18, 2012 at 8:52pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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For the third year in a row, Democrats controlling the Senate have failed to produce a serious budget. Democratic Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad tabled the vote late Wednesday, arguing with (and perhaps at the behest of) Democratic leadership that the August debt-ceiling deal technically provides a discretionary spending budget for 2013, thereby satisfying legal requirements to consider a budget.
“This is the wrong time to vote in committee; this is the wrong time to vote on the floor,” The Hill reports Conrad said. “I don’t think we will be prepared to vote before the election.”
Conrad failed to mention the inability of Senate Democrats to rally behind any particular budget, let alone any plan with Republicans. The move stunned Senate Republicans, who called the announcement an embarrassment, as Senate Budget Committee Ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions said in a statement:
“Chairman Conrad’s stunning announcement, forced on him by his party, is a defining moment in 2012 and a national embarrassment for a Senate majority that is unable to meet the great challenge of our time.
It’s been 1,084 days since the last time the Senate’s Democrat majority passed a budget plan, despite a simple majority threshold for passage. Our nation has never needed a budget more, and, as a party, Senate Democrats haven’t produced a plan for three years or conducted a committee mark-up for two. “
The complete inability of Senate Democrats to produce a plan while the government appears to continue to function day-to-day basis, baffles many Americans who cannot imagine holding their household together without a budget, especially in these demanding economic times.
“Real News” panelist Will Cain admits he doesn’t even know how Democrats can pull this off year in, year out. Cain explained the budgetary responsibilities of Congress and how some legislators have avoided their duties regarding the nation’s purse strings on the show Wednesday, as well as why a budget matters.
Bonus: S.E. Cupp rants on the sad history of the Bowles-Simpson plan:
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1WhoQuestions
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:33amPerhaps the American people need to define what we mean to the Senate.
In mathmatical terms: Where X is income and Y is spending the sum total equals Z. Z must always be equal to or greater than $0.00.
Budget: Something that is established so you do not rack up massive debt.
If tax revenue equals $3 trillion you must never spend more than $2.5 trillion. At the end of the fiscal year, if anything is left over from that $2.5 trillion it, along with the additional $500 billion, go towards paying down the principal of the US debt. The $2.5 trillion budget must include unanticipated expenses and debt payment.
Could be that is too much of a common sense thing for the government to grasp as it is always easier to spend other peoples money rather than your own.
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:40pmThis is why there needs to be a limit on terms in congress. People like Harry Reid are ubstricting the wheels ( no matter how slow) of government to move. This should be a crime. They are there to serve us. Who voted for Reid anyway? They need of a brain scan!!!!
Report Post »chiefwahoo23
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 4:08pmIn today’s immediate satisfaction society, what would a budget do for the useful idiots anyway? The liberals/democrats don’t have the forethought to see the future – it’s only what it will do for them today or tomorrow. A budget done correctly MAY just lead back to righting the ship… 15-20 years from now. Yes, it will take that long IF DONE CORRECTLY TODAY. What a crap-hole we have dug here folks!
Maybe the idiot dems in congress are waiting to see just how much Obamamoney® there is out there so they can pay the debt down with that! Wait until they find out they can‘t get their hands on it because it’s earmarked for someone who ‘needs it’ to pay off their car, mortgage, gambling, flat-screen, liquor store bill, bookie, OWS clean-up, etc., etc., etc.
Report Post »patriotpal
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 11:48amI notice very few if any liberals show up here to defend the dem congress refusing to do what its paid for, – because its indefensible. Amazing how they just ignore the inconvenient truths– like the rule of law and the job we pay congress to do. This is the beginning of a serious breakdown in our government and if it continues there will be no fixing it. These people have no ethics, no concern for the country, its people or its constitution. I remember it being mandatory to pass the constitution test or you could not graduate high school, now its becoming almost meaningless — very very sad. I feel fortunate I got to grow up in a fairly decent America before the governments ethics went down the crapper and congress outsourced its job to the executive branch in fact creating an eventual dictatorship. God help us all if this traitor and his horned minions get re-elected, if this much damage has been done in three years another four will certainly finish it off as a free country. Sadly its been going down hill for decades, the socialists have been hammering away at it since day one almost. I just dont understand the mindset of someone wanting to destroy the greatest free country on earth.
Report Post »leonardo44
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:47amthis clip used to talk about the budget is the cure for insomnia, Will Cain reminds of teachers i had in school that bored me to death.
Report Post »dianna9490
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:58amLets see: A Budget is supposed to be a guideline to allow you to spend money on certain expenditures. But when you get to end of the fiscal year and there is money left over – GUESS WHAT? Most companies make sure to spend it anyways – if not then that department gets less the next year! And if there is not enough money in the Budget then more is spent anyways to make sure they get enough for the next fiscal year! OBAMA AND HARRY REID HAS NO BUDGET ON PURPOSE – MAINLY BECAUSE A BUDGET DOESN’T SEEM TO MATTER TO OUR OUT OF CONTROL GOVERNMENT! TOTALLY RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:52amIf they had a budget that would leave a trail as to where the money goes. No this is on purpose as to let the rats and cockroachs do their thing.
Does it make sense to have a budget for money we don’t have ?
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:52amwhat debt?
me and mine owe no one anything…
again…what debt.
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:04amEntitlements Will Consume All Tax Revenues by 2049
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/entitlements
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:01amIf we don’t change course immediately, your share of the national debt is projected to be $279,738.00 by the year 2050. That is for every man woman and child in America !
Report Post »See Here:
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/national-debt-burden
TyrannyNoMore
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:55amEveryone of these elected officials is in violation of their constitutional duties !!! The Demoncrats, for failing to establish a budget and the Republicans for failing to hold them accountable. We are no longer a nation that lives by laws ! We have become a nation that lives by the whims of a few corrupt men and women who have no business holding their seats in Congress.
Here is just one of the many shocking facts about our current state of affairs, thanks to these criminals.
>>>>>By 2050, the national debt is set to hit 344 percent of Gross Domestic Product. <<<<<
You have to see this chart, to put things in perspective:
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/national-debt-skyrocket
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/20/1000-days-without-a-budget-facts-on-the-senates-failure/
Report Post »slwrig2
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:08ama classic example of lack of leadership, oh yeah and it‘s from the liberal d’bag democrats and the lack of leadership from the regime in the whitehouse!!!!!!!!!!!!! KICK OUT ALL LIBERALS< IMPEACH OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:37amIf ya don’t have a budget, ya don’t have to watch spending, it’s a “spending orgy”, that’s what all liberals do, after all that’t why they call them liberals, look it up in the dictionary.
Report Post »TemayElbor
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:38amI just don’t understand why there is so much FEAR ON THE PART OF THE DEMOCRATS when it comes to the creation of a NATIONAL BUDGET. What is the reason for this? Can somebody in the media look into this?
Report Post »TheePolitinator
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 5:53amIt’s simple, its been over 1000 days and no budget. That‘s because their plan is so gruesome they can’t expose it until after Nov.
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:15amBudget….what’s that?
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:06amTRUEAMERICAN40, They don‘t seem to know and if they do they won’t tackle it until AFTR the election.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:37amWhere the hell is that round tuit? I know it’s around here somewhere…
Report Post »ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:46pmSenator Conrad is a coward. He needs a few hundred thousand emails letting him know that WE know.
Report Post »FANGS
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:18pmMan are the rounds going to be flying. Democrats are America’s #1 Economic terrorist Domestic Enemy. I Pledged to uphold the Constitution. In the Name of the Law and Freedom, I will fight til by last drop of Blood. War Will Happen, This Year, Very soon. That is a Fact.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:43pmHonestly what else is new? Its been long figured they will use the not having a budget as part of the battle this Nov. especially as the debt ceiling battle comes to the fore; Obama needs panic and chaos mixed with uncertainty and fear for him to be reelected as the ‘saviour of the world.’
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:41pmIf you don’t have buget. You don’t have to control spending.
Report Post »Warpath18
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:34pmShouldn’t this headline read…
“Senate Democrats Ignore the Budget (as well as the Constitution)…as Usual?
Report Post »Tigress1
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:27pmThese politicians start campaigning for the next election the day after they are elected! WHEN is it ever not election time? WHEN are they going to do their job? This is a complete dereliction of duty. If they don’t come up with a budget, then we can take their fears about election time away from them and NOT RE-ELECT THEM! They have done NOTHING to deserve it.
Report Post »83plus
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:25pmGee there’s a shock.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:29pmFire them all. No budget, no pay. They are not doing the job they were hired for.
Report Post »EddardinWinter
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:21pmAnd a poor spammer too! The address was different each time!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:11pmBudget, what budget…..the Dems are kind of like treating the budget like a rabid homeless person. If you don’t make eye contact, and walk by fast enough, maybe it won’t notice us and make us give it a dollar. But like a rabid homeless person, an ignored budget will simply start to fester, soil itself, stink to high heaven, and eventually, go insane and kill us. That’s right Harry, just ignore the problem, sooner or later, it WILL get its dollar, and give you fleas.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:08pmYoYo…..Spam Spam.
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