Posted on 11/15/2010 2:23:25 PM PST by bestintxas
As a lame-duck Congress convenes Monday, Democrats are still hoping to pass a $1 trillion year-end budget bill in spite of the anti-spending fervor that dealt a blow to their party in the midterm elections.
The backlog of unfinished business facing the lawmakers includes Congress's most basic job: keeping the government running after Dec. 2, when a stopgap appropriations bill expires.
Republicans, fresh from an election victory they see as a mandate to rein in government spending, have set a goal of cutting appropriations to 2008 levels, which would reduce domestic programs by $100 billion.
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Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), said businesses need to know their tax rates. Democrats will not let that happen in their remaining weeks of controlling the House. They are under no illusion that they will be able to increase spending significantly, but they have been working quietly during the congressional recess on a swan-song budget bill that would, at least for now, keep spending at current levels.
President Barack Obama has invited House and Senate leaders of both parties to the White House for a meeting and dinner later this week.
He told reporters Sunday he hoped that would encourage more cooperation from Republicans.
"Campaigning is very different from governing," Mr. Obama said on Air Force One as he returned from his trip to Asia.
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We have to listen to this from a negotiator returning from a failed overseas trip and who has never governed anything in his life, but made a perpetual campaign out of the Presidency?
Being a Dem must really be a strange head-trip. They have this compulsion to spend, spend spend. And they believe that this will solve the nation’s financial problems.
Or, perhaps they hope it will exacerbate the problem, thus making the populace more dependent upon the government, giving them more power. Yeah, I think that’s it.
No they don't. They believe it will lay this nation low, and that they can live high-on-the-hog while it happens.
They do not want to pass this. They want to be able to blame the Republicans.
We need to give them another tidal wave, not more headwinds. Their boat needs to be capsized and take quite a few RINOs with it.
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