Ryan to WH: Any day now with that budget, really, feel free
posted at 8:21 pm on March 6, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is all set to unveil the GOP’s budget proposal next week, which he’s hinting will be more ambitious than last year’s with its plan to balance the budget in just ten years, but says is still very doable:
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said the budget he will unveil next week will make only “modest policy changes’’ in the conservative blueprint the House approved last year even though he is now aiming for a much more ambitious goal: balancing the budget in 10 years.
“I wouldn’t expect any big surprises,’’ Mr. Ryan told reporters Wednesday. …
Mr. Ryan plans to release his budget resolution Tuesday and the Budget Committee will approve it Wednesday, sending it to the House floor for a vote the following week. The Senate Budget Committee is expected to act along a similar timeline to draft Democrats’ budget alternative. …
I’m sure we’ll have plenty of opportunity to hear all about how draconian and granny-cliff-tossing the entire proposal is next week, but this year’s process might be the first time in years that Democrats actually present a concrete alternative plan of their own, gasp! Even if it does nothing to fix our current fiscal insanity, at least they’re finally ready to abide by their legal duties, so that’s something, I guess.
From the executive branch, however, still no sign of that little ol’ budget the White House was supposed to produce by the first Monday in February. Via Politico:
“I find it interesting that he’s chosen to blow the deadline again, not only by a week or two, which is what we’ve seen in the past, but for an indefinite period of time and waiting for others to lead first,” Ryan said.
“The person in the White House ought to lead. That’s what presidents are supposed to do,” Ryan said. “And by delaying your budget for an indefinite period of time, [it] shows that there’s just not a seriousness of purpose to actually fixing our budget problems.”
Obama has missed four out of his five budget deadlines, and we’re supposed to believe that sequestration held them up? Riiiiight.
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Sweet. How sweet it is.
Finally, Obama’s chikkinzzz are coming home to roost.
petefrt on May 19, 2013 at 8:22 PM
This.
When you have to plead incompetence to defend against charges of malfeasance, you know you might be in trouble.
petefrt on May 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM
ear relevant…
driguana on May 19, 2013 at 8:59 PM
Flush this lying tudd down the drain with the rest of the Obamacrap.
kemojr on May 19, 2013 at 9:34 PM
This was Dan Pfeiffer’s week in the barrel, like Susan Rice he was given the White House talking points and sent on a mission. He really needs to get copies of these tapes and watch them and see how foolish and unbelievable he looked and sounded. The White House is losing the little credibility it still had by sending these shills out every week trying to do damage control. Community organizers make poor leaders.
savage24 on May 19, 2013 at 9:42 PM
Pfeiffer’s statement that the law is irrelevant because the IRS conduct was “outrageous” and “inexcusable”, tells us all we need to know about this administration.
However, the follow-up should have been, “On what standard do you judge their conduct to be outrageous and inexcusable since the law is apparently not an appropriate standard?” (At least in Pfeiffer’s mind.)
What this comes down to is this: “if the Administrative deems something “outrageous” and “inexcusable,” then it is declared such. As we have seen in so many other areas, if the Administrative deems something to not be “outrageous” and “inexcusable,” then it is declared such.
In their mind, the law is – in fact – irrelevant. That’s what makes this situation so dangerous.
It’s not socialism. It’s worse.
EdmundBurke247 on May 19, 2013 at 10:36 PM
Irrelevant = “What Difference Does It Make?”
jaydee_007 on May 19, 2013 at 10:41 PM
A fitting capstone to Ed’s story about loss-prevention (aka employee theft) and management’s “permission structure” in this post.
(Not to mention the jaw-dropping statements of Eleanor Clift in this one.)
AesopFan on May 19, 2013 at 11:40 PM
I enjoy popcorn and hope it is a long week.
Drill and Fill on May 20, 2013 at 12:41 AM
Hey give Barky a break. He had to get his sorry ass out to Vegas.
tbear44 on May 20, 2013 at 4:49 AM
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