The Democratically controlled Senate has not passed a budget since Obamacare became law and as a result the federal government has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions ever since.

Democrats in the Senate will not be passing a budget this year either, making it a clean 4 in a row.

Weird how Leftists are OK with this. Imagine if it were a GOP controlled Senate that operated like this, 4 years in a row (and counting). I would be outraged either way. Leftists? Not so much. Politics is all just a game to them.

If no agreement is made on federal spending before that date, the federal government will be forced to shut down.

….annnndddd??

The sky is falling…the sky is falling!

President Henny Penny…

If no agreement is made on federal spending before that date, the federal government will be forced to shut down.

The federal government has never shut down. It doesn’t happen. It’s just another crisis mode tactic. Sure, they shut down “non-essential” services. Which always begs the question of why we have non-essential services to begin with.

But does the President get booted out of the White House and stop receiving a salary? Does Congress stop meeting? Does the Supreme Court have to stop deciding cases? Do all military personnel all around the world immediately have to return home? How about the Secret Service — do they stop protecting the president and other dignitaries? Is Air Force One totally and completely grounded?

If the answer to any of those questions is “no,” the federal government has not shut down.

… the federal government has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions ever since. The last one, passed in September 2012, expires March 27th. If no agreement is made on federal spending before that date, the federal government will be forced to shut down.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

By design. Keep people in constant crisis mode and they’ll pass anything just to avert said crisis.

CurtZHP on January 2, 2013 at 4:02 PM

I think the endgame is to to scare Congress into legislating away the power of the purse and give Obama unilateral authority to raise the debt ceiling and spend money.

On that day, we will truly be a dictatorship.

They will have blown a once in a generation opportunity to raise taxes by trillions of dollars on the American people

Such a shame, too.