Comments on: Senate Republicans offer budget schedule for March ahead of CR showdown

By: A Modest Proposal On The Debt Ceiling - Spitcracker Picayune

A Modest Proposal On The Debt Ceiling - Spitcracker Picayune — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:31:50 +0000

[...] to move forward with a budget. The continuing resolutions funding the government expire on March 27th, and that would be the next stumbling block to fund the [...]

By: orangemtl

orangemtl — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:34:27 +0000

Peripherally related:
Is there a single photograph: even ONE: in which Patty Murray does not look baffled, or just out-and-out slow witted?
By all accounts, she’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer; photographic evidence reinforcing her ‘not-the-gifted-kid-in-the-class’ reputation abounds.

Perhaps Senate Republicans should employ the use of hand puppets, when trying to explain budget issues to her. They DO transcend barriers of language, and basic comprehension. Just a thought.

By: OxyCon

OxyCon — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:59:38 +0000

Democrats always shriek about the “Bush wars” not being included in the budget, yet they haven’t even passed a budget in over 4 years.

By: herm2416

herm2416 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:32:57 +0000

GOP?

Never heard of them.

Rixon on January 17, 2013 at 11:00 AM

By: amr

amr — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:12:26 +0000

The 1974 act on the budget requires a proposed budget to be issued by the Senate by each April. This federal law unfortunately has NO consquences. What I don’t understand is why Republicans aren’t screaming about this illegal action by Reid and the Democratically controlled Senate.

By: AndrewsDad

AndrewsDad — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:08:25 +0000

If the budget committee is not producing a budget, why do we have the committee?

By: KW64

KW64 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:00:04 +0000

Budgets are racist and anti-children, budgets limit spending and spending is what makes the economy go and create jobs so budgets are anti job anti employment— until you have heard the cries and wiped the tears of 30 year old Georgetown Universtity students who can’t afford to buy contracetives, don’t talk to me about budgets etc etc. /s

By: ToddPA

ToddPA — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:47:20 +0000

Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.).

Folks, this is what our Nation has been reduced to..

..this woman, who goes into restauarants with another person
accompanying her, and when asked by the Maitre de
“table for how many”? responds with “I don’t know, I can’t
count that high either”

we literally have the most Idiotic among our population in
charge…..shudder…..

By: Karl Magnus

Karl Magnus — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:28:51 +0000

We must take the steps necessary to avoid what Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have told our committee will be the ‘the most predictable economic crisis in history,’

Who? What? I think we need yet another "commission" to tell Dear Leader how to lead. /sarc President ØbeyMe disregards all advice provided by those who are a helluva smarter than him. ~(Ä)~

By: logis

logis — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:26:57 +0000

The Senate Budget Committee chair is deciding whether or not to produce a budget.

Nice job if you can get it. And to think, seniority and performance get you to that point.
Jabberwock on January 17, 2013 at 10:20 AM

“Hmmm… Should I be wildly irresponsible and shirk ALL my fidiciary duties for the fifth year in a row?”

“Wow. Now that’s a tough decision. Tell you what; give me a few months to think it over and maybe I’ll get back to you. Or not.”

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:19:59 +0000

Shout the absence of a Dem budget for nearly three years and Murray’s stupid remark repeatedly in every media outlet. Do not let this folly continue.

By: Rixon

Rixon — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:00:52 +0000

GOP?

Never heard of them.

By: Mr. Arrogant

Mr. Arrogant — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:45:40 +0000

Makes no difference what the Pubs do now, McCain will reach around to find some common ground and that will be that.

By: Conan

Conan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:43:05 +0000

Let all say it together now. “with the economy weak and still trying to rebound we can’t at this time afford to disrupt it with a government shutdown ….”

It isn’t as if there haven’t been like 3 of these Republican caves before this to get to having gone this long.

It’s great that as long as Obama destroys the economy he gets to continue to rule like a king. What an incentive to come to the table and fix things.

Recipe for the end of America.

By: Night Owl

Night Owl — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:41:00 +0000

In that Act passed in 1974 are there any consequences mentioned if a budget is not passed? Usually breaking the law holds consequences. Oh that’s right consequences are just for us, not for them.

odannyboy on January 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM

No, there is absolutely no consequence to breaking this law. Nothing was written to enforce it, let alone to involve some kind of punishment for breaking it.

By: Lourdes

Lourdes — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:39:17 +0000

Obama continues to throw temper tantrum because he won’t eat his peas and thinks Congress has to serve him up some fresh puppy instead.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/14/president-obama-uses-unscheduled-presser-to-say-raising-debt-ceiling-has-nothing-to-do-with-new-spending/

By: katablog.com

katablog.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:37:31 +0000

The Senate Budget Committee chair is deciding whether or not to produce a budget.

I understand committee chair people get extra pay. Sounds like she doesn’t need her’s since why have a budget committee without a budget?

Who are the dimwits that believe Owe plans to reduce the deficit when his minions can’t even pass a budget?

By: platypus

platypus — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:33:38 +0000

The House GOP better not do another CR or else the last election will be a fond memory in 2014. The tea parties and conservatives are done with this BS by the Weeper of the House.

Every time he gets the House to approve a CR, he gives Jugears another stimulus with absolutely no accountability. An 800 billion dollar slush fund and it’s the GOP that is making it happen.

Watch and see what happens in 2014 if this stupid smoking jello-spined fool caves in. We (tea parties and conservatives) will kill the GOP if they don’t exceed the huevos of Sarah Palin.

By: docflash

docflash — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:33:21 +0000

This is a polite request to a return to normal order.

This,the Republicans should fold up shop and go home until normal returns.They are being blamed and demonized regardless of what they do.Obama’s childish goal is to crush them at all cost so why play anymore.

By: Lourdes

Lourdes — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:32:46 +0000

Meanwhile, a keen part of the President’s (any, all of them) job duties — what they are required to do by the Constitution — is: ensure the nation’s debts are paid.

I guess Obama and Reid think that’s going to be done by, ohh, some riffraff annoying Republican or other trash, sometime, somewhere.

It’s a duty required of Obama by the Constitution, that document that’s so annoying to him, so “old White men-ish”.

By: Lourdes

Lourdes — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:29:58 +0000

Note the remarkable silence from the Left, including Leftmedia, about how Obama’s one and only budget submitted was rejected by nearly all of Congress, including most Democrats.

Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Democrats, budget…

…one of those things is not like the others.

By: odannyboy

odannyboy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:29:23 +0000

In that Act passed in 1974 are there any consequences mentioned if a budget is not passed? Usually breaking the law holds consequences. Oh that’s right consequences are just for us, not for them.

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:29:02 +0000

You can hide a lot of RED INK with no budget.

By: cmsinaz

cmsinaz — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:27:29 +0000

Y’all are right caving will ensue

By: Lourdes

Lourdes — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:27:10 +0000

Yes, you read that right. The Senate Budget Committee chair is deciding whether or not to produce a budget. It’s a good thing that the Armed Services chair isn’t mulling over whether to have armed services. Or maybe I shouldn’t give Harry Reid any more ideas.

Like Obama’s Big Do exploiting The Children to announce his many graffitiesque Executive Orders, among which is his EO to declare he needs to do his job (appoint someone to head a federal department which he should already have done and somehow isn’t aware that he can do it without writing to himself, about himself, an EO).

I’m SURE I’m not the only citizen/voter who notices that Obama USES government contrary to any concept of service but as an avenue to exploitation. Like being hired to swim, so instead he poses beside the pool and makes a lot of “ooh” sounds.