Posted on 02/06/2013 7:47:19 PM PST by Nachum
The Republican-led House passed legislation Wednesday that would force President Obama to estimate when the federal budget will balance again — and outline the steps he proposes to eliminate the budget deficit. The Require a PLAN Act is part of a new Republican attempt to force Obama and the Democratic Senate to engage in efforts to cut the deficit. Republicans have roundly criticized Obama for submitting late budgets that don´t balance, and the Senate for failing to produce any budget plan at all in nearly four years. As expected, the
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OK and while we’re at it, buy things made in America.
Just saying.
Now.
Yeh right!!! another date in the future that means nothing and will be negotiated away like everything else and agreed to by this Congress.
Exactly right. House - Just Do It. Balance the budget. Show some leadership.
I hate seeing these totally pointless bills that “look” conservative.
If they got paid for all these bills that never see law the budget would be balanced already.
I want to see a vote where the House REFUSES to fund Obama care. Now that would be a vote to cheer!!!
” - - - “We can’t do it alone. We need to have the cooperation of the president and the other body to make any meaningful progress.” - - - “
Sorry Cantor, this is the same old RINO Congressional Mantra: “We have to find a Bipartisan Compromise that both the House and Senate will pass, and that Obama will sign.”
IOW, it only takes one of the 3 leaders to say “No” to cause the RINOs to cave in to the Democrats. What a lazy bunch of cowards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right now the 3 leaders are: 1.) Sobber of the House Boehner, 2.) Senate Majority Leader Reid, and 3.) President of the United States of America Valery Jarrett.
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I'm with you!!!
You are so right, Mr. Wright!!!
Strtting and fretting on their stage, more sound and fury from congressteers, signifying nothing.
Is this like a strongly-worded letter?
I'm sorry, but that's not quite the way it works right now.
Thanks to the Senate's four years of budgetary inaction, the "current services baseline budget" is what is driving spending. In other words, what was spent last year plus an escalator for inflation.
So long as a new budget is not passed, that is the mechanism that is driving spending.
In the absence of a budget resolution, the only controls the House has over total spending are a.) the debt limit and b.) countinuing resolutions. They have no effective control over what the money is actually spent on, since that is a function of maintaining "current services".
... Of course it will quickly die in the Senate. However it’s always nice to have a little hope for the nation once in a while though .... even if it is for a fleeting moment :-)
Exactly right. House - Just Do It. Balance the budget. Show some leadership.
They may as well the Senate will never vote on it anyway.
On the positive side of doing it; if they passed a budget that actually balanced the budget the Senate could not resist talking about how cruel the budget is and how it balances on the backs of the poorest Americans.
Which is superior: the Constitution or a House resolution?
Doesn’t the Constitution already specify a date by which the president must present a budget to Congress?
If he ignores that, why on earth would he pay attention to a House resolution?
@tumblindice: “Strutting and fretting on their stage, more sound and fury from congressteers, signifying nothing.”
Heh. Obama as MacBeth. The possibilities are vast.
“Budget? There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace until the last syllable of recorded time.
“And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.”
How apt!
All I can say to him is out, out dam’d spot!
Obama’s not going to do it. And even if he did then what? What are the next steps for Boehner and McConnell?
Well it didn't take him long to turn weenie, did it?
House to Obama: We dare you to cross over this line.
Obama: OK(Promptly crosses over line.)
House: Now this one!!
The GOP. Simply pathetic.
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