obama's budget 100% fail.

[Katzndogz]

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

A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2012 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday.

In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators rejected the president’s blueprint.

It’s the second year in a row the Senate has voted down Obama’s budget.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

It's only been 3 1/2 years...give them another 4 years.

 

[waltky]

Senate rejects every single GOP budget being offered this year...

Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote
5/16/12 : A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday.

In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators present rejected the president’s blueprint. It’s the second year in a row the Senate has voted down Obama’s budget. Obama's 2012 budget failed 97 to 0 last May after Obama himself last April said he wanted deeper deficit cuts. The House earlier this year unanimously rejected Obama's budget. The White House sought to provide cover for Democrats to vote against the Obama budget resolution before the vote, arguing the resolution offered by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was different from Obama’s budget because it did not include policy report language. Democrats made the same point on the floor Wednesday in explaining their votes. The Senate also voted on four GOP budget blueprints, which were all defeated.

The GOP forced the votes and believes they showcase the party's ability to produce plans that eventually balance the budget with the lack of a Democratic alternative. Republicans have hammered Senate Democrats for their inability to produce a budget, which the GOP notes is approaching three years. “For three years, Senate Democrats have refused to produce a budget, as required by law,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement. “And today, they soundly rejected the president’s budget proposal which spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much." McConnell said Obama's budget was "bad for jobs because it includes the biggest tax hike in history, it’s bad for seniors because it lets Medicare and Social Security become insolvent and it’s bad for our economy because it fails to address the nation’s $15 trillion debt.”

But the GOP push was blunted a bit when the House Republican budget from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) faced Republican defections in a 41-58 vote. The "no" votes included five Republicans: Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Olympia Snowe (Maine), Scott Brown (Mass.), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Dean Heller (Nev.). Heller and Brown are both in competitive reelection battles this fall. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) initially voted against Ryan's budget but then changed her vote to "yes." She had voted against Ryan's budget last year. In a statement, she said said she voted for Ryan's budget now that he had altered the Medicare proposals to make private insurance only an option. Heller explained his no vote by saying the votes staged by his own leadership were a sham he would not endorse. “Today was about political posturing. The American people are tired of it, and so am I,” he said.

Snowe lamented she was not able to offer amendments to the Ryan budget and Brown called for a bipartisan approach. “We need to end our out-of-control spending, our trillion dollar annual deficits, and the attitude that taxing more and spending more is the answer," Brown said. "To do that, we need to work together, Democrats and Republicans.” Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign pounced on the news, noting more than 500 members of Congress had now gone on record opposing Obama's budget. "President Obama is clearly in over his head and incapable of leading the country," Lanhee Chen, Romney's policy director, said in a statement. "It is time to turn to Mitt Romney's proven experience and leadership."

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Democrat-led Senate votes down 4 GOP budgets for 2013
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - The Senate on Wednesday rejected every single budget being offered this year, leaving the chamber — and therefore the federal government — without a plan to address Medicare, Social Security and the other major entitlement programs that are driving deficits and debt.

In repeated votes, Democrats who control the chamber defeated four Republican proposals, including a plan that passed the House in March. The entire Senate also unanimously rejected President Obama’s 2013 budget, voting 99-0 against it, following a 414-0 vote against it in the House earlier this year. “A stunning development for the president of the United States in his fourth year in office,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican. Congress is required by law to pass a budget by April 15, then write the annual spending and tax laws to carry out the budget’s targets. But for the third straight year, Democrats didn’t offer a plan of their own in the Senate. The last time it did pass one was in 2009, when Democrats controlled all the levers and wrote the measure that paved the way for them to pass Mr. Obama’s health care law.

Democrats called Wednesday’s votes a distraction, saying the results were preordained and pointing to the fact that even some Republicans couldn’t vote for any of the plans. Indeed, four Republicans joined all 53 Democrats in voting down all of the options: Sens. Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts, Dean Heller of Nevada and Susan M. Collins and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine. Mr. Brown and Mr. Heller are both in tight re-election races, while Mrs. Snowe is retiring. “Today’s votes were not a serious effort to pass a budget,” Mr. Heller said. “Both sides of the aisle are at fault. Americans watching this debate witnessed exactly what they’ve come to expect from Washington: Republicans blaming Democrats, Democrats blaming Republicans.”

Wednesday’s debate centered on four GOP plans: One that passed the House last month, one written by Sen. Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, another by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and a final one by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. Mr. Toomey’s plan actually did the best, garnering 42 votes — still well shy of a majority. It topped the House GOP’s plan, written by Rep. Paul Ryan, which only garnered 41 votes. Mr. Toomey’s plan adopts some of Mr. Ryan’s elements, including the changes to Medicare, but cuts deeper, lowering basic spending in 2013 to $985 billion — a level last seen in 2005.

It would still rack up deficits of $1.9 trillion over the next decade, but that’s far below the $6.4 trillion in added deficits in Mr. Obama’s budget or the $3.1 trillion in Mr. Ryan’s plan. “My colleagues on the other side refuse even to debate our fiscal crisis, let alone introduce a fiscal blueprint for solving our country’s problems,” Mr. Toomey said. “Instead of lobbing political attacks at the ideas I and my Republican colleagues have put forward, it is incumbent upon the majority party to put forward ideas of its own. Anything less is a flagrant abdication of its governing responsibility.”

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[editec]

If Obama vetos budgets then it's up to Congress to either find the votes to override the veto or find a compromise budget that Obama will sign.

The 100% fail thus far is entirely on CONGRESS, kiddies.

 

[SniperFire]

If Obama vetos budgets then it's up to Congress to either find the votes to override the veto or find a compromise budget that Obama will sign.

The 100% fail thus far is entirely on CONGRESS, kiddies.

That's interesting. But this has nothing to do with Obama vetoing a budget.

Read, then post.