It's Unanimous: No One Likes the Obama Budget

[Leweman]

Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote - The Hill's Floor Action

It beats the Dems Senate budget though, I guess.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote - The Hill's Floor Action

It beats the Dems Senate budget though, I guess.

The reason the Senate Rules are in place is to fool people like you, Leweman.

BTW, what is it you like in the Ryan Budget?

 

[Greenbeard]

BTW, what is it you like in the Ryan Budget?

Probably the dismantling of Medicare. Nobody wants that program around anymore, right?

 

[Leweman]

Ryan will be making a budget as VP?

 

[Truthseeker420]

Just as they did in March in the House of Representatives, Republicans forced a vote on a bill that was supposed to resemble the president's budget, but wasn't actually the president's budget. A Republican Senator submitted it, and called for the vote.

Senate Unanimously Rejects A Budget Offered By Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) [UPDATE]

 

[Listening]

The empty chair put out a budget....?

That's better than what Harry Reid (the empty head) could do.

 

[Lakhota]

Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote - The Hill's Floor Action

It beats the Dems Senate budget though, I guess.

Please tell us when they voted on the actual Obama budget and not some Republican altered version such as the Jeff Sessions version.

Why the Senate hasn't passed a budget

Republicans have relentlessly harangued the Senate's Democratic leadership for failing to pass a budget resolution. "1,000 days without a budget," was the title of a typical missive last month. On the weekend Jack Lew, who has just been named Barack Obama's chief of staff after serving as his budget director, defended the Senate by saying it couldn't pass a budget without 60 votes, i.e. without the cooperation of some Republicans. Republicans jumped on Mr Lew, pointing out that under Congress' budget procedure, a budget resolution cannot be filibustered and thus only needs a simple majority vote - typically 51 votes - to pass. Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post's fact checker, awarded Mr Lew four Pinocchios, the top score, for fibbing.

In fact, Mr Lew, while wrong on the narrow wording, is right on the substance. It is true that the Senate can pass a budget resolution with a simple majority vote. But for that budget resolution to take effect, it must have either the cooperation of the house, or at least 60 votes in the Senate. Only someone intimately familiar with Parliamentary procedure can explain this. Jim Horney of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is such a person. The following are his edited remarks from our email conversation:

DETAILS: Parliamentary procedure: Why the Senate hasn't passed a budget | The Economist

 

[Luddly Neddite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/u...ng-ryans-budget-plan-at-arms-length.html?_r=1

Some pubs and pots don't like the Paul Ryan Rape Of America Budget.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote - The Hill's Floor Action

It beats the Dems Senate budget though, I guess.

Please tell us when they voted on the actual Obama budget and not some Republican altered version such as the Jeff Sessions version.

Why the Senate hasn't passed a budget

Republicans have relentlessly harangued the Senate's Democratic leadership for failing to pass a budget resolution. "1,000 days without a budget," was the title of a typical missive last month. On the weekend Jack Lew, who has just been named Barack Obama's chief of staff after serving as his budget director, defended the Senate by saying it couldn't pass a budget without 60 votes, i.e. without the cooperation of some Republicans. Republicans jumped on Mr Lew, pointing out that under Congress' budget procedure, a budget resolution cannot be filibustered and thus only needs a simple majority vote - typically 51 votes - to pass. Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post's fact checker, awarded Mr Lew four Pinocchios, the top score, for fibbing.

In fact, Mr Lew, while wrong on the narrow wording, is right on the substance. It is true that the Senate can pass a budget resolution with a simple majority vote. But for that budget resolution to take effect, it must have either the cooperation of the house, or at least 60 votes in the Senate. Only someone intimately familiar with Parliamentary procedure can explain this. Jim Horney of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is such a person. The following are his edited remarks from our email conversation:

DETAILS: Parliamentary procedure: Why the Senate hasn't passed a budget | The Economist

THANK YOU. I have posted this FACT many times but, of course, the desperate rw's ignore it.

I'm sure they will continue to ignore it because it doesn't fit their twisted and dishonest agenda.

 

[IHBF]

^his "budget" has cost us over five trillion ($5,000,000,000,000) dollars of debt.

 

[SniperFire]

For a distract and deflection on Obama's failure to budget, watch some Libtard start a thread and pretend the old House budget for '13 is what Romney will be pursuing.


Just watch!

 

[Listening]

Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote - The Hill's Floor Action

It beats the Dems Senate budget though, I guess.

Please tell us when they voted on the actual Obama budget and not some Republican altered version such as the Jeff Sessions version.

Why the Senate hasn't passed a budget

Republicans have relentlessly harangued the Senate's Democratic leadership for failing to pass a budget resolution. "1,000 days without a budget," was the title of a typical missive last month. On the weekend Jack Lew, who has just been named Barack Obama's chief of staff after serving as his budget director, defended the Senate by saying it couldn't pass a budget without 60 votes, i.e. without the cooperation of some Republicans. Republicans jumped on Mr Lew, pointing out that under Congress' budget procedure, a budget resolution cannot be filibustered and thus only needs a simple majority vote - typically 51 votes - to pass. Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post's fact checker, awarded Mr Lew four Pinocchios, the top score, for fibbing.

In fact, Mr Lew, while wrong on the narrow wording, is right on the substance. It is true that the Senate can pass a budget resolution with a simple majority vote. But for that budget resolution to take effect, it must have either the cooperation of the house, or at least 60 votes in the Senate. Only someone intimately familiar with Parliamentary procedure can explain this. Jim Horney of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is such a person. The following are his edited remarks from our email conversation:

DETAILS: Parliamentary procedure: Why the Senate hasn't passed a budget | The Economist

Harry Emptyhead put out a budget resolution ???