Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Thursday, February 09, 2012

This isn't even the most cavalier statement about the budget made by a Democrat today. Take it away, Steny Hoyer:

At a briefing with journalists on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Hoyer was asked, "Mr. Hoyer, around the same time of the State of the Union [on Jan. 24], I think it was the same day, Republicans were trying to hit Senate Democrats for 1,000 days without passing a budget, and then you talk about this milestone today, 400 days without a jobs bill in the Republican House. But then on Friday [Democratic Senator Harry] Reid said that he didn't think they needed to bring a budget to the floor this year [and that] the Budget Control Act can serve as a guideline."

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The hell with the Constitution, right Harry?

Atta-boy, Harry. -The RNC

Almost laughable knowing it is their own laws they are breaking...

The process of creating the budget for the United States government is known as the budget process. The framework used by Congress to formulate the budget was established by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921,[1] the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974,[2] and by other budget legislation.

Prior to 1974, Congress had no formal process for establishing a coherent budget. When newly-elected President Richard Nixon began to refuse to spend funds that the Congress had allocated, Congress needed a more formal means by which to challenge him. The Congressional Budget Act created the Congressional Budget Office and directed more control of the budget to CBO and away from the President's Office of Management and the Budget. The Act passed easily as the administration was embroiled in the Watergate scandal and unwilling to provoke Congress.

The President, according to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, must submit a budget to Congress each year. In its current form, federal budget legislation law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)) specifies that the President submit a budget between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in February.

Not me.

"Who cares if the Senate passes a budget or not?"

It is completely unfair to ask them to do their job.

and over and over and over and show after show after show...some dickheaded goddamn democrat like wasserman-whogivesashit will lie and lie and lie and lie about gop blocking bills from becoming law and other shit like this.;..

These days, deficit spending is so out of control, the budget is meaningless.

The debt clock keeps ticking away.
www.usdebtclock.org

"Who cares if the Senate passes a budget or not?"

Certainly not the GOP, given Boner and Cant have asked the Senate to shred all the copies of Ryan's throw granny off the cliff budget they passed and loved (for about 15 minutes).

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