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It is, and it isn't. The Senate rules regarding budget bills is slightly different than the House rules. It actually does take more than a simple majority in the Senate to make budget bills effective. This article from The Economist does a better job of explaining it than I can.
That's true but not really my point. The House passed bills and the Senate sits idle. If Harry Reid were a leader and interested in compromise, which he claims is necessary, he could take up the House bill and use it as a starting place for compromise by making changes or additions in the Senate, or he could try to get a bill passed in the Senate by seeking input from moderate Republicans. The fact that he takes no action at all is negligent and belies his rhetoric about working together since he shows no evidence of working at all.
That's true but not really my point. The House passed bills and the Senate sits idle. If Harry Reid were a leader and interested in compromise, which he claims is necessary, he could take up the House bill and use it as a starting place for compromise by making changes or additions in the Senate, or he could try to get a bill passed in the Senate by seeking input from moderate Republicans. The fact that he takes no action at all is negligent and belies his rhetoric about working together since he shows no evidence of working at all.
As I said earlier, we don't know what's happening behind the scenes. It's quite possible that Reid has consulted with moderate Republicans, but in the hyper-partisan environment we have right now, those moderate Republicans want Reid's discretion.
But I concur with you, what we are seeing as the American people is, well, dissappointing. We deserve better. We really do.
Cuts are needed to our federal spending. Democrats got their tax increases, now it's time to pay the piper on the other side of the aisle and stop the gravy train in DC.
While the Democrats look at this whole issue as a way to drum up support against the GOP citing polls and charts where blame would be cast, and posing wild and uninformed sensationalist end-of-world scenarios for sequestration effects, the GOP is (hopefully) standing firm regardless of what's popular and will see these cuts through.
Democrats, this is $85 billion out of $3+trillion in spending, quit complaining, quit whining, quit LYING, and grow up.
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And it is beyond disgusting the left is trying to blame all of this on the Republicans. BO is the worse President this country has ever seen.
As I said earlier, we don't know what's happening behind the scenes. It's quite possible that Reid has consulted with moderate Republicans, but in the hyper-partisan environment we have right now, those moderate Republicans want Reid's discretion.
But I concur with you, what we are seeing as the American people is, well, dissappointing. We deserve better. We really do.
That may be so that there are behind the scenes conversations. I hope that's true. I wish they (all of them) would have those and stop with the media rants.
We agree. It's dereliction of duty and damaging the country.
And it is beyond disgusting the left is trying to blame all of this on the republicans. Bo is the worse president this country has ever seen.
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