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Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Miss., introduced a budget amendment representing the president’s budget request; the Sessions amendment was voted down 99-0.
A similar effort from Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-SC, was rejected in the House 414-0.
Sounds awful, right? No votes from ANYONE in either the Senate or the House. Yikes!
But then, if you read further, you discover that it wasn't the Presidents budget proposal at all. Oh-so-clever Republicans kept the numbers, threw out all the specific details, and introduced what were in fact budget amendments. The Senate bill was 56 pages long. Actual budgets - you know, the ones with details? - are extremely complicated and long documents with hundreds and hundreds of pages.
In other words, anyone who had for FOR such a budget amendment would have been a total idiot. Republicans voted against it because then they could say (and other idiots could believe and regurgitate) that they voted against the President's budget. Democrats voted against the budget amendment because the bill was a nonsensical piece of trash.
In other words, anyone who had for FOR such a budget amendment would have been a total idiot. Republicans voted against it because then they could say (and other idiots could believe and regurgitate) that they voted against the President's budget. Democrats voted against the budget amendment because the bill was a nonsensical piece of trash.
Exactly, this was a little parliamentary trick designed to generate exactly the headline we're seeing in this thread. Note that the Senator who introduced this didn't even vote in favor of it. That should be a giant red flag to everyone that there's more than meets the eye here.
All we ever hear from the Left is that the GOP will not compromise with Democrats. What's really at stake here is that we don't have a President who is really interested in compromise....who's not really willing to reach out to the opposition to see if he can bridge the gap. He acts like he's interested in compromise, but he's really not. It's all a facade meant for public consumption, just like everything else Barack Obama does.
Politicians like Lyndon B. Johnson.....who personally involve themselves in the daily grind of legislating in order to get what they want......are nowhere to be found. Barack Obama pretends he's Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, but if he really wanted something he'd do better to mimic LBJ.
The problem with this is that Barack Obama doesn't actually know what he wants. He throws crap at the wall, hopes it sticks, and when it doesn't he blames Republicans. That's the man-child we have in office right now. A pure amateur.
I alwlays find myself agreeing with you. Always! The thing is that i do believe Obama knows what he wants, and go's after that agenda any way he sees fit. Right now it is getting all the votes he can muster up.
Put his opponet on ice, and drudge up things from his past, i care nothing at all about. For heavens sake, i don't care what either one of them have done in H.S. who did not do stupid things back then. That is beyond childish.
Get real, talk about the issues at hand, why the economy is down in the dumps, why businesses are shutting their doors why so many are still unemployed. Housing crisis, not showing signs of improvement. Talk about your spending habits, you said you would not do. Talk about the issues, and why have you not made things better as your Obama promised.
And why everything has doubled in price since you got elected, and yes save the excuses.
All this proves is what we already knew: Obama isn't serious about the fiscal problems facing the country and he certainly isn't serious about submitting a budget that passes the laugh test.
Fortunately, there are millions of us out here who are quite serious about firing his incompetent a$s.
Notice how all the right wingers ignore other posts describing why the bill had zero votes? Either they are complete idiots or really clever. This would be like me taking a note from someone editing it to say only what I want it to say and then saying, well you wrote it and I don't agree with any of it. Lol classic first grade
Notice how all the right wingers ignore other posts describing why the bill had zero votes? Either they are complete idiots or really clever. This would be like me taking a note from someone editing it to say only what I want it to say and then saying, well you wrote it and I don't agree with any of it. Lol classic first grade
Riddle me this boyce: Why hasn't the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget in OVER THREE YEARS?
If you really want to know how biased the media is go to Google and search on budget and look at how many news outlets don't have "Obama" or "President" in the title with this story about a budget getting zero votes.
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