Is anyone noticing that we don't have a budget this year?

[Warph]

The Democratic controlled Congress has overlooked a small, but rather significant detail in their desire to remake America.

Gee.... they forgot to present a budget this year.

Just a simple oversight, right?  No doubt when they discover their lapse in memory, they'll get right on it and work extra hard to make up for lost time.

Um...nope!

LOL... The Democrats won't present a budget because they have to wait for the president's deficit commission to come up with a plan to reduce their monumentally out of control deficits?  You buying this?  ("Please stop me! I can't help spending a trillion dollars on another stim bill!")

The idea that the Democrats will take anything, any deficit commission recommends to heart is balmy.   They will cut defense, no doubt, and find a way to raise taxes (on the "rich" of course).  But as far as deep cuts in entitlements.... faggetaboutit.  Not going to happen.  You would think that a party that needs to go to the American people in November and ask them to keep them in power would take a little initiative and come up with a budget that enacts some real cost savings.

Dream on. 

They would rather take the unprecedented step of failing to present a budget resolution than face their own
music:
Skipping a budget resolution this year, a move House Democrats are considering, would be unprecedented. The House has never failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the current budget rules were put into place in 1974, according to a Congressional Research Service report. The budget resolution is a non-binding document whose main purposes are to set discretionary spending caps for the coming fiscal year, lay out the framework of the majority's fiscal policy and create the option of easing legislation through the Senate via fast-track reconciliation procedures.

No doubt Nancy Pelosi has always wanted to go down in history for something.  Somehow, I don't think the Democrat's failure to come up with a budget was what she had in mind.

......Warph

[pamagain]

 For Christs sake we are fighting wars all over the place.......BUSH started to whole STIMULUS thing rollin.....just as many REPUBLICANS as democrats are spendin money like drunken sailors............actually some greedy little f-ers in the back room of a BANK started this whole house of cards thing and GOD only knows what "party" THEY belong to.

Nancy Pelosi makes my skin crawl and so does Reid...but this tarrin the whole bunch with the brush of a few is gettin REAL OLD.

Why dont you all quit beatin this dead horse and come up with somethin constructive BESIDES "vote republican in 2010"?? Like THATS gonna work.................................

[Warph]

Sorry, Pam... Obama's spending has put the repubs spending way, way, back in second place.  And you haven't seen the last of his spending if he gets another chance.... cap and trade, immigration reform, more money for Obamacare, another possible stimulus next year, to name a few.

As far as "somethin constructive BESIDES vote republican in 2010".... keep this in mind: Democrats: Big Government, Big Spending, more Taxes as oppossed to Repub's:  Less Government, Less Spending, Less Taxes.  Now who would you vote for? 

[pamagain]

As far as "somethin constructive BESIDES vote republican in 2010".... keep this in mind: Democrats: Big Government, Big Spending, more Taxes as oppossed to Repub's:  Less Government, Less Spending, Less Taxes.  Now who would you vote for? 

Bull.........POLITICIANS:big government, big spending......there IS no less.  I'll do like I did last time vote for whomever is runnin on my ballot from ANY OTHER party that I think could do the job......green...independant......constitution. I will NEVER vote republican.....unLESS a miracle happens and an honest one shows up.

I am one of THOSE people....I refuse to vote for somebody I DON"T like just because they are the  "lesser or two evils". If you get my vote it's because in MY opinion you are the best person for the job.

[Warph]

Well, anyway..... a failure to budget is a failure to govern.  The democrats seem intent on proving their unworthiness to lead Congress in even its most basic tasks.  At the same time, their leadership.... if you want to call them that, Obama, Pelosi, Reid... they want voters to trust them to make the most personal of decisions in their health care, as well as believe that they can cool the planet and lower the sea level with punitive taxes on energy production and boondoggles in alternative energy. 

Soooooo.... so far, no budget for 2011.  Could it be because of Obama's most renowned "best and brightest," Peter "Propeller Head" Orzag, the White House budget director, decided to leave the "chicken coop" (because he collided with the political team, led by Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of graft, over the Obamanator's 2008 election pledge not to raise taxes on any households earning less than $250,000 a year.... a category that covers more than 98 per cent of Americans) and now they haven't any idea how to put a budget together.  Maybe we'll finally get one by 2012... or maybe Obama doesn't want one so he wouldn't have to be restricted on spending more taxpayer moola on his silly programs.  I guess it is a "wait and see" situation with Obama... as usual.

...Warph

[Diane Amberg]

WARPH<why do you think there is no 2011 fiscal budget? I had no trouble finding it. If that wasn't it,what was I looking at?

[Warph]

WARPH<why do you think there is no 2011 fiscal budget? I had no trouble finding it. If that wasn't it,what was I looking at?

Diane, you were looking at a budget that has not been passed and put into law.  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's (D-MD) has said there will be no budget this year.  Until the budget is approved by Congress, it is nothing but a pile of numbers on paper and in this case, will probably go to in the Oval Office bathroom for Obama to get some use out of it.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/104635-dems-wont-pass-budget

In light of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's (D-MD) announcement that House Democrats will not pass a budget this year.... failing to fulfill what he has called "the most basic responsibility" of governing.... the following important fiscal health warning has been issued:

_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Cancelled: There Will Be No Congressional Budget This Year

Washington D.C. June 22, 2010

***The Following Is An Important Fiscal Health Announcement***

:: THE BUDGET HAS BEEN CANCELLED ::

WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PLANNED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS' OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING SPREE.

AN APOLOGY FOR THIS BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN TAXPAYERS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE FORTHCOMING AT THIS TIME.
BE ADVISED THAT THE FOLLOWING SERVICES WILL BE INTERRUPTED:

*Imposing the fiscal discipline economists say is needed to create jobs and boost our economy

*Reining in the out-of-control spending spree that is killing American jobs

*Carrying out the "most basic responsibility of governing"

*Stopping middle-class tax hikes that will sock family budgets at the worst possible time

*Providing the leadership on jobs and the economy that Americans say is sorely lacking

*Protecting our kids and grandkids from the enormous debt burden Washington has placed on them

We reserve the right to notify you of additional consequences that may arise in light of this budget failure, which is unprecedented in the modern era. In the interim, please brace for more spending, more debt, more tax hikes, more broken promises.

For families and small businesses looking for a government that listens to the people it serves and respects their hard-earned money, House Republicans are offering better solutions to cut spending now and help small businesses put people back to work.

http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=191653

.....Warph

[Wilma]

How many times during the 80's was the federal government put on hold because a budget had not been passed by Oct. 1?  I can remember being sent home from work and told to not come in because the budget hadn't been passed and there wasn't any money to pay us.  This happened several times during the 80's and who was our president at that time?  Now, 3 months before the end of the fiscal year and someone is already ranting about not having a budget for 2011?  NONSENSE and a few four lettered words that I can't spell.

[pamagain]

  Wilma....shhhhhhhh LOL nobody is supposed to remember that! Good one

[Diane Amberg]

That was my point too. What I saw is the one that will be probably be passed after everyone gets done dancing around and shaking their tail fathers for while. I thought WARPH meant one hadn't been written. It's not like this hasn't happened many, many times before. Why is anybody surprised? It's nothing new.