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The Spectacle Blog
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters today that Democrats may not be able to pass an actual budget resolution this year because too many members will be skittish about voting for a budget with such a gaping deficit during election season, the Hill reports.
Theoretically speaking, Congress is supposed to pass a budget resolution each year, but it can get away without passing one. When Republicans were in control, there were a number of years during which they failed to pass a budget. At the same time, Democrats had pledged to be better stewards than the GOP when they took back Congress.
And either way, this, from Hoyer, sounds pretty weasely: “It’s difficult to pass budgets in election years because they reflect what the [fiscal] status is.”
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Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 4.13.10 @ 7:17PM
They don't have to pass an "actual" budget just for little ole' us, we won't mind, they can just make one up, and tell us that everything is all rainbows and unicorns. Hell, they can just tell us that they balanced the budget, and eliminated the deficit while they were at it too. Hey, why not? It'll be like saying the healthcare law (Obamacare), is going to lower the deficit, we'll believe anything they tell us, what do we know, or care about anyway? It doesn't matter anyway, because the Mayan's say the world is coming to an end in 2012, so why plan ahead? So I say, budget, smudget!!
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Pecos Pete| 4.14.10 @ 9:29AM
In New Mexico our legislature just passed a budget using a revenue estimate that was obviously too high. But, they "balanced" the budget. Now, two months later ... oops, the new budget is now estimated to already be in a deficit of $76 million.
The games these dumbos play.
Sooner or later the chickens will come home to roost.
martin j smith| 4.14.10 @ 10:11AM
Whatever "tricks " the left plays should be used in political advertisements revealing to all who they really are.
Heatpacker| 4.14.10 @ 10:52AM
What they will do is simply pass a series of continuing resolutions, which will just continue current spending, perhaps with an inflationary index increase thrown in. This way they hope to avoid defending their reckless spending and their astronomical, destructive budget deficits. Sorry, Mr. Hoyer, it ain't gonna work. You can't hide the truth - every Democrat politician in Washington, D. C. is a lying, skulking WEASEL!