Posted on 03/29/2015 8:45:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Last week, the GOP-led Congress passed a budget resolution which, Republicans claim, will balance the budget in 10 years. The resolution is a policy document, intended to guide the appropriations process, and doesn’t itself have the force of law.
More important than the details of the budget document, the action sets up the GOP to finally match its action to its rhetoric and undo the worst aspects of Obama’s fiscal policies.
Over the next two weeks, while Congress is in recess, the House and Senate will begin to hammer out small differences between the budget resolutions that passed each chamber. Leaders in both chambers have vowed to meet the April 15th deadline to produce a final budget resolution.
The final product of House and Senate negotiations on a budget resolution matters less than the process by which any deal will be enacted. Congress, particularly the Senate, can use “reconciliation” to make policy changes that involve the final budget agreement. Reconciliation limits the amount of debate in the Senate on the final resolution and, most importantly, operates outside the filibuster process, so it requires only a simply majority of 51 votes for passage.
Reconciliation was used in the 1990s when Bill Clinton was in the White House and Republicans controlled Congress to produce the last real balanced budget. It was used to pass the Bush tax cuts early in his presidency. It was also used to enact ObamaCare.
Keep these examples in mind, because if the GOP finally uses its power to repeal ObamaCare under reconciliation, the media will no doubt scream about the “unprecedented” nature of the congressional actions.
With reconciliation, the GOP now has the very tool it campaigned for during these past 5 years. It could repeal ObamaCare, enact long-overdue tax reform and give citizens real choices...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
That is to beg the question. I stand on what I said. They are afraid to be outrageous (like God is outrageous).
I am dead serious- the Republican Party is WAY past it’s expiration date, and needs to be eliminated in favor of the Conservative Party, or American Party, or Constitution Party, or maybe the Reagan Party.
It means to assume the conclusion which you purport to come to.
Which is exactly what you did.
How about just “boringly” remembering God again.
God is the author of wonders.
GOP has had alot of tools...Reince Preibus #1 tool in the shed.
“Complicit” enough to boast the most conservative official platform ever...
You are cheering on Satan’s side and want to offer a seemingly “non complicit” worldly alternative which of course will fail! On behalf of Jesus, I say the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.
Notice he’s been completely silent? He’s on his way out with all the other traitors.
From the article-
“Countless times the GOP has shirked from any real policy stand.”
That’s what this thread is all about, GOP refusal to do their damn job. Their inbred cowardice. I really don’t believe that any of this is or is not about “remembering God”.
Yep. Suppose some company said "For now, we will continue to borrow and borrow. But just wait. Ten years from now we'll stop borrowing." That company would be a laughingstock, and mocked everywhere.
But in D.C. such a lunatic stance is actually taken seriously.
The idea of balancing the budget in ten years is a joke.
Quote from the article “If a budget resolution is never finally enacted, because Obama digs in his heels and refuses to negotiate, nothing happens. There will be no shutdown of government and no risk of “defaulting” on the national debt.”
I understand the leverage that reconciliation gives the Republicans in allowing bills go to Obama. I understand the point of making small tweaks to force the bill back to Obama. I believe the conclusion from the article is flawed. In the absence of a veto override, doesn’t Obama have to sign something else there is a government shutdown as their is no expenditures?
That’s because you really don’t believe in God!
That’s fine, those who do will leave you in your self pitying, fecklessly judging dust.
Well now, that's a really big "if", isn't it?
Doesn’t everyone remember Obamacare was not a stand alone bill and was passed via reconciliation and the legal eagles on our side have been telling us for eons 51 votes is all we need to nix this beast? My guess is they are waiting and planting the seed in our minds that this is what they will do if we get a “R” president that will sign a bill to end it with just 51 votes...
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