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Nancy Pants Pelosi - tossed 2011 budget into GOPs lap.
We’ve heard all of this during the time that the GOP has had control of the 112th Congress. During that whole time the GOP has been trying to get the budget for Fiscal Year 2011 reconciled. A budget that should have been passed and enacted to go into effect on October 1, 2010, mind you. Please note that the GOP had NO control over the FY 2011 budget. None, whatsoever. Please note that it was the responsibility of Nancy Pants Pelosi and her 111th Congress to pass that budget. But, instead of facing the hard truths, they passed instead, a series of Continuing Resolutions that kept the Government up and running through January. Where the whole kit and kaboodle landed squarely into the laps of the Republicans.
It is important to note that the FIRST bill that passed through the House of Representatives, HR1 was to set the full budget for the rest of FY 2011. Even more interesting, that bill never saw the floor of the Senate. Because the Senate is in control of people like Harry Reid, who determined immediately that, “Nope… ain’t agonna do it”. The Democrats didn’t like the bill because it asked for $61 billion dollars in cuts, as well as cutting the funding to Planned Parenthood. The Dems don’t want any part of any kind of responsible cuts to government spending. And they (as well as Obama) refuse to defund abortions through Planned Parenthood.
So, HR1 has been sitting. And sitting. And sitting. Meanwhile, the GOP have managed to get a couple more CRs passed, with a few billion dollars in cuts enacted. Now, the 2012 budget is out. And finally, Obama has decided it is TIME and beyond time to get the FY 2011 budget done. Heck, we’re only 6 months or more beyond the due date. What’s a few months between Democrats, after all?
Well, suddenly, it is a big hairy deal. Obama has said he won’t accept any more continuing resolutions. He wants the Republicans to quit fooling around, dammit, and get this budget passed. Evidently, there are no mirrors in the land of Democrats. Obama had these extremely hypocritical things to say on April 5 regarding the negotiations – per CNSNews.com:
President Barack Obama, showing growing impatience, said Tuesday it would be “inexcusable” for lawmakers to fail to fund the government through the end of the year and cause a shutdown. “We are closer than we have ever been to an agreement. There is no reason why we should not get an agreement,” Obama said following a White House meeting with congressional leaders. [emphasis mine]
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“That is not a way to run a government. I cannot have our agencies making plans based on two week budgets,” Obama said. “What we are not going to do is once again put off something that should have been done months ago.” [emphasis mine]
Seriously?? Where was Obama’s sense of urgency two months ago? Four months ago? How about when Pelosy was charged with the budget – and the Democrats HAD FULL CONTROL OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS? That is what *I* want to know. I cannot begin to describe my frustration with the hypocrisy of this administration.
So. The GOP struggles to maintain their stance; and keep their word to We The People about the cuts to the budget while they get jack hammered by the Democrats and the President. And the Democrats hurl their bilious, nonsensical and pusillanimous words in the Republicans’ direction with no sense of conscience for the condition of the United States.
On Tuesday, April 5, Steny Hoyer, second from the top of the MINORITY in the House of Representatives was asked by CNSNews.com where HE would make cuts to the budget. He refused to be specific at all, only referring in general to overall “reduction” in spending.
At Hoyer’s weekly Capitol Hill press briefing on Tuesday, CNSNews.com noted the Democrats’ criticism of the GOP’s proposed cuts and asked Hoyer, “Where specifically would Democrats cut spending? If these cuts that the Republicans are proposing are unacceptable, where specifically are Democrats willing to cut spending?”
Hoyer said, “In point of fact, when Vice President Biden came down – in fact Democrats had been working within the appropriations framework to respond exactly to that question.
Huh? Was there an answer in there? Oh, wait. There’s more:
“The administration’s made it clear that they thought another $20 billion – which would have been, again, depending upon whether you’re counting from 60 [billion], 40, or whether you’re counting from zero – but if you’re counting from 40, let’s say for the sake of argument we put $30 billion on the table to work towards cutting with an agreement between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and the House as to where those cuts specifically would be,” he said.
Liberals make me so confused!
Okay, my head is spinning. Really and truly spinning. And I am a bookkeeper by profession. And there’s not a lick of sense there. But – are you surprised? That is what the Democrats do. They hurl insults, they ridicule, they slander – but they never EVER offer viable solutions to a problem. They only work their butts off to make sure that no one ELSE can institute a workable solution either.
When asked again for specifics on what Democrats were willing to cut, Hoyer criticized the Republicans for limiting cuts to non-defense discretionary spending, saying “everything” needed to be on the table. (see? criticize, don’t help)
The second-ranking House Democrat did not say, however, which parts of the rest of the federal budget – defense and entitlement spending – Democrats would consider cutting.
“We have in fact made some accommodations on cutting spending but I don’t want to pinpoint those until – if the deal is possible – that that deal is then struck,” said Hoyer. (Of course not – “If you don’t know, then I’m not going to tell you!”)
“From my standpoint, obviously as I’ve told you, looking at the small sliver of the budget is not how you will get from where we are to where we need to be,” he said. (What the HELL does that mean? The GOP have been trying to get the whole 2011 budget passed since they took over on January 5, 2011)
Thus far, neither House Democrats nor Senate Democrats have said where they would be willing to cut spending. Both House and Senate Republicans have endorsed the House-passed H.R. 1, which would cut $61 billion over the remaining fiscal year but which died in the Senate despite receiving the vote of every Republican senator. (Of course they won’t say where they’re willing to cut. Because they’re not willing to cut ANYTHING except maybe the military – which has already cut $150 billion over the next 5 years voluntarily) [emphasis mine]
Right now, the Democrat MO is terribly dangerous to the American economy. In order to save ourselves from an economic implosion, we absolutely MUST enact these draconian, extreme, Tea Party driven cuts. It is the only way to save our country.
The Democrats seem to be completely oblivious to these facts. I don’t think they really are innocent, however. I think that they just simply do not care. What is more important to them is their power base; and keeping those donations coming. They buy their votes and they aren’t the least bit ashamed to flaunt this. They KNOW what is happening to our economy, and yet they keep barreling full speed ahead – all the while, damning those who are trying desperately to make the necessary hard decisions to fix it.
Republicans have said that H.R. 1 remains their foundation for the ongoing budget negotiations while Democrats have chosen to trade only in the broad figures Hoyer cited without detailing what they would be willing to cut.
Democrats – who have called the cuts in H.R. 1 extreme – have not offered their own counter-proposal for spending cuts in either chamber of Congress, a choice that has come under fire from Republicans.
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House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), appearing with [House Majority Leader, Eric] Cantor on Tuesday, said that Republicans, having offered H.R. 1 as a starting point twice, were now waiting on Democrats to offer specifics.
“We put out H.R. 1 once. We’ve put it out twice. We have another bill. We’re still waiting on the first bill [H.R.1] to get out of the Senate,” Hensarling said, referencing the fact that, technically, H.R. 1 was never brought to the Senate floor for a full vote because it failed a procedural cloture vote to end debate. [emphasis mine]
You see what I mean? The GOP offers SOLUTIONS, the Democrats offer OBSTRUCTIONS. Obstructionism never ever solved anything. Solutions by their very nature SOLVE problems. To me, it is a no brainer, right?
STAND UP AND SUPPORT THE GOP!
I will end this with my new rallying cry. STAND UP FOR THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS AND THEIR BUDGET POSITIONS. LET EVERYONE KNOW, ESPECIALLY YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THAT YOU SUPPORT FULLY AND COMPLETELY, THE GOP POSITION ON THE BUDGET CUTS FOR BOTH FY 2011 AND ESPECIALLY FOR PAUL RYAN’S FY 2012 BUDGET. It is imperative in order to save our country from ending up like Greece or France or Italy, Portugal, Ireland… the list goes on and on. We do NOT want to become like the EU – regardless of what Obama and his progressives say. We are AMERICA. Period.
