Reid: No, I don’t plan to bring a budget to the floor this year « Hot Air
It’s been more than 1,000 days since the Senate has passed a budget, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is unconcerned. In fact, he says he has no plans to bring a budget to the floor in 2012, either. He argues the 2012 budget is already done because last summer’s debt-ceiling deal included a few spending caps.
If this doesn’t frighten you, it should. Apparently the Leviathan State can roll merrily along without any budgeting input from Congress.
It seems to me that if a formal budget is not passed into law, the United States government should be forced to simply shut down until one is passed. But the current GOP certainly does not have the cojones to make that happen.
Current law requires that the Senate pass a budget. The Senate has not, and there is no statutory penalty attched to that failure.
When Reid states he has “no plans” to prepare a budget, that is an intentional non-action to violate the law. That goes beyond not performing. It is a statement that he is defying the law with intention. That should at least be an ethics violation.
Yes, I won’t hold my breath.
Hummm. Lessee now. 2009-2009 expected income was 2.7 trillion. Budgeted expenditure was 3.1 trillion, not counting military actions-what’s that, another 400 billion? So we were 800 billion out of balance?
Now comes Mr Obama and the Democrat control of the
congress. No budget for 2010 or 2011 or 2012 and they spent an extra 5 trillion bucks(say that quickly and you won’t think about how much that is -that’s what Reid does).
I really want to run my finances like this-it would be so much fun.
Assuming, of course, that the current GOP doesn’t secretly applaud this…
Hmph. What’s needed is some teeth for that statutory requirement. How about, “failure to carry out the minimum required functions of the Senate will result in, for all members, the ineligibility to serve in any future Congress, or any other position, elected or appointed, in the Federal Government, or in any corporation or organization either receiving Federal funds, or lobbying the Government, or engaged in regulated PAC activities. Furthermore, all health, pension, and other benefits and emoluments will be permanently lost.”
Call it the “Do Your F*cking Jobs Or Go Home” Amendment, and make it apply to the whole damned lot of them, while we’re at it.
If you will show me a family without a budget, I can show you a divorce-in-waiting. My observation over the last half-century leads me to believe that the basis of the vast majority of divorce stems from money arguments. Even that old bug-a-boo, ‘sexual disfunction’ often stem from unresolved money arguments. Since the average family can spend ten percent more than the average family makes without breaking a sweat, it takes a strong will to impose fiscal discipline on an undisciplined subject.
The refusal to propose a budget says far more about the Democrat party that any rant, any profanity, any comment at all, really. It marks them as a fundamentally unserious group, a group concerned only with the naked exercise of power. Almost like the national GOP.
I say vote Pogo for the Walt Kelly fans among you.