Liars and cheats.

They require that Americans “sacrifice” and live within their means and tell everyone to demonstrate “American values” to the world while we fork out cash to develop other countries.

And us? Debt and non-development.

Just more extensions of unemployment benefits to delay facing the truth.

No budget = another delay tactic, a distraction from publicly admitting the magic tricks Obama passes off as “economic policies” are failures.

Obama should be buying his suits from Sears, Pelosi from Macy’s.

He should forfeit his wages as POTUS as well.

Suitable “sacrifice” for Obama.

Nancy can’t be seen at her parties in cheap suits…what would that make the $100 bottles of Jack look like? I mean come on- the people elected to these postitions have totally lost focus. Normal Americans don’t continuously spend over their means without having to pay a steep price for it. I mean, you can for a while, but eventually Peter meets Paul and they realize you are pulling a fast one and the piper comes to collect. I say good for the RSC for making the tough call. Of course the Dumbocrats will trash it and spin it, but they won’t be able to censor it and the public will know where the RSC stands on tough choices. When you overspend and then have to live on a budget, there are tough choices and luxuries you became accustomed to are pared back. It is not forever people…ask Dave Ramsey. Rice and beans and tuna fish…now he is a MULTI MILLIONAIRE and completely DEBT FREE. It CAN be done!

we’re gonna need it in a few months

The ads virtually write themselves:

“Congress, for the first time in history, failed to pass a budget. Then they went on vacation a week early…”
[cue shots of Obama, and various House Dems, playing golf]
“Your family has to have a budget. Why can’t Congress do the same? Shouldn’t we have a Congress that does its job and works for *us*?”

Like I said, these ads virtually write themselves…

How can this be?

I’m sure that the Dem failure to even propose a budget resolution, and the Republicans’ offering of one, will get above-the-fold coverage in the the Washington Post.

No? Wha….?

How can this be?

I’m sure that the Dem failure to even propose a budget resolution, and the Republicans’ offering of one, will get above-the-fold coverage in the the Washington Post.

No? Wha….?

If what I learned from this video is true, by refusing (not failing) to pass a budget resolution, the House is reverting to last year’s budget targets, but they are now not subject to points of order. Which goes to the question I wanted to ask: What can be done to counter this, other than providing a Republican budget, which is sure to be treated with derision? I had hoped there might actually be some consequence available to exploit and bring the House to a standstill, such as points of order, objections, whatever. Of course, I suggest these on the presupposition that we have at least one congressman who might do so.

I also found it quite interesting how we got the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Nixon had been refusing to spend all of Congress’s appropriations, but following his Watergate transgressions, he lost his resolve to face off with them and signed the Act.

Maybe one of our House members could just introduce a bill to change the 1974 Act’s name to the “Just Spend the D**n Money Act.”

It’s pretty hard to be serious about a budget when you know it will dig a deeper hole that will anger the public. If the budget information gets out it has a pretty good chance you won’t be around to implement it anyway.

I was under the impression it was one of the few things that they were actually tasked to do as a branch of the Government. Wouldn’t NOT passing one be a dereliction of duty?…..

As I started to read the post I heard FNC report that this is the first time the House has failed to pass a Budget Resolution since 1976. Either way (not since the new rules of 1974, or failed to pass in 1976), this is yet another political act by the Democrat Congress. They apparently think they can save a seat or two by not putting the citizenry on notice regarding how they wish to spend our money. Well, make that specify how they wish to spend our money. We already know the generality of “how” is profligate spending.

A Budget is used for allocating Money. We have NO Money, only digital paper issued by the federal reserve with NO basis in reality. The emperor has no clothes and we are bankrupt, right now, not 10 years down the road. The illusion may continue,but the truth is what is real.

Pelosi and Hoyer both know that if they pass this Bill they will lose more seats in Congress because they know how angry America is with the spending, increasing the deficit and ObamaCare just to name a few things that worry most Americans.

So, she not vote on it or tried to hold a vote outside C-SPAN camera and vote privately behind closed doors and not record how members voted. She’s done this before and will do it again. She doesn’t want Democrats to be held accountable for how they voted and then would lose there seat, come election time. She did this in both 2007 and twice that I could find in 2008 right before the elections and especially because they wanted Obama to win. Had the press reported this, they certainly would have held onto those seats in Congress. However, since our once “free” press has been bought by the progressives, these things go under the radar.

I love that political cowardice is being called political cowardice but if the real problem the democrats are avoiding is a true budget with real, BIG, BIG, BIG deficits that the voters will be able to see, say $1.5 TRILLION dollars, then it seems that we’re just playing THEIR game with these approaches.

The real issue is that their budget, whether in an official or de facto budget resolution is too large and has too big of a deficit. Offering rational alternatives for political cowardice plays into the democrats’ hands by muddying the waters.

Nobody has really put an actual number to what they’re spending, with or without a budget, offering rational arguments with a ‘rational’ budget when the democrats are fleeing from an emotional reaction of the people is just… the wrong battle to fight!

I say, the republicans should just state what the democrats won’t, the de facto budget; publish the budget number the democrats would have HAD to put in the budget resolution. Keep it honest, reflect what their current spending program will yield; actually show both spending and deficits for the fiscal year, no hyperbole… no high estimate for effect. Just make it an honest budget estimate and that should be sufficient to bring about what they fear, rejection by the voters.

The democrats are afraid of those budget numbers for a reason, don’t let them off the hook by arguing a totally different set of numbers! Use their numbers (those numbers are toxic to them) and that should be enough to have the effect that they fear. I say, the KISS principle will be the most effective, highlight what they are afraid of (THEIR budget estimate) and they will get their just rewards, defeat at the polls.

Well, that seems like the most effective approach to me but, hey, I understand that real warriors like to join the battle when offered by the enemy but, it seems that Napoleon’s (paraphrased) maxim of “Never interrupting your enemy while they’re making a mistake” holds for this situation; it is a MISTAKE to have a budget that is this bad (a pretty big one), don’t interrupt the democrats with a different argument.