joe you are really funny, you know that, the Democrats don't offer a budget, they don't pass a budget, they don't even bring it up for a vote before the election, and you say it is now all the Republicans Fault?
Apparently reading comprehension is not one of your strong points mr. roam. Is it? Where did I say it was right for Democrats not to pass a budget? I didn't.
Yeah when you and yours start spouting off all that right wing whacko nonsense for which you are famous there just is no making sense of it for the rational coherent individual.
So, their sworn duty is to do the business of the United State, and that means passing a budget for each fiscal year.
Ok then why have Republicans failed to produce a budget?
Now the Democrats had control and a majority in both Houses, and the Presidency to sign any budget they delivered to the Presidency, and they didn't even present a Budget Bill.
You seem stuck in the past mr. roam and not able to comprehend the now. As I said previously it was bad Democrats failed to produce a budget. But we both know why they didn't. It is the same reason Republicans who now control the House have been unable to pass a bill. If they do they create political enemies with in their own parties. And in the case of Democrats they give Republicans another chance to whack them over the head by pass ing a bill that no one is going to like.
Both sides are being silly mr. roam. Both sides don't have the political guts to cooperate and demonstrate leadership on the matter mr. roam.
The reason that your precious Democrats didn't want to pass a budget bill was the $14+ trillion national debt, runaway deficits, and trillion dollar increase in entitlements would have been on paper in writing for the Voter to see, it would become public knowledge, in a voter atmosphere that demands cutting the Budget, reducing the Debt, and eliminating the deficits, and yes as you just have admitted;
Because they were the ones with the control of Congress under which the debt ballooned to over $14+Trillion Dollars on Their and Obamas watch.
And where did that 14 trillion dollar debt come from mr. roam? Which party was it that passed the biggest entitlement expansion in history mr. roam? Since you don't want to be honest about it, let me answer it for you. It was your precious Republicans mr. roam. - one of those minor details that keeps bitting you in the ass.
The drivers of the nations debt and deficits mr roam were 10 years of wars; years of unfunded tax cuts; and entitlement expansions, all constructed and passed into law by a Republican House, Senate, and signed into law by a Republican president. Those long term structural changes to the budget have committed the nation to decades of future deficits and debt...all the responsiblity of the Republican Party and its financial backers. And did I mention the economic disaster that Republicans left Democrats when voters ousted them in 2008? No I didn't. And that economic disaster was historic in and of itself requiring huge sums to mitigate the disaster.
http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=2714763&postcount=65
So your attempt to weasle out of blame here for yourself and your Republican/Tea Party friends is disingenuous to say the least. The reason the debt and deficits are so high mr. roam is not because of the Democrats, it is because of 8 years of "deficit don't matter Cheney" Republican adminstration in Washington and Republican committments to enriching both themselves and their financial sponsors at the expense of Joe taxpayer.
Republicans handed the Democrats and unprecedented debt and committed deficits for decades and now you want to blame the Democrats for your transgressions. There just are no words to adequately express my contempt. At the very least you and your Republicans could admit your mistakes and apologize to the nation. But that ain't happening, is it?
Yes, the Republicans have a problem now, it is the Democrats who now are blocking any attempt to pass a Budget that should have been passed last year, by the Democrats, the problem is that the Democrats insist that even though the Voters took the power away from them, that every thing is suppose to reflect their social spending priorities and agendas.
You have a strange way of looking at things mr. roam. This last election Democrats maintained control of the Senate. If the citizens were so angry with the Democrats and so supportative of Republicans as you would have us believe, then the nation would have handed both houses to Republicans and they didn't.
Like I said many times before in this thread, how is what the Democrats are doing any different from what the Republicans were doing when the rolls were reversed? Not a damn thing mr roam, it is startling that you cannot see the blatent hypocrisy.
No joe, it is you who exhibit the best of the Democrats as you spin this as a Republican problem, and wish to place blame on Republicans for the Democrats failure to pass a budget, and now want to point fingers at the Republicans who didn't have any control of the government, when the budget was due, remember when this budget was due, it was under the Control of the Democrats and Your precious Democrats at the time this budget should have been passed controlled the House--Senate--and the Presidency.
In one ear and out the other as my mother used to say, but I will try it one more time mr. roam. Show me where I absolve Democrats for failing to pass a budget? You cannot because I have not - again one of those frightening details that keeps bitting you in the ass.
http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=2714917&postcount=29
Now it is the responsiblity of the Republican House to produce a passable budget...something they have repeatedly failed to do. Instead they get people like you limbaugh, levin, et al to offer excuses for their failures instead of doing the nations business.
Now who was incapable of producing a budget? Actually a better question is who chose not to produce a budget?, The Democrats, and even today they choose not to allow a budget to be passed.
Sorry joe, this is one time the Problem and it's consequences are squarely on Obama and the Democrats, they chose as a campaign strategy to not produce a budget, and then to block every attempt to fix the Democrats chosen election policy of not producing a budget.
Yes Democrats did punt on the budget issue for political reasons. Republicans opposed everything the Democrats did...gee doesn't that sound familar. Now the shoe is clearly on the other foot mr roam.
Now the responsibility for the budget is squarely in the hands of Republicans in the House. Unless Republicans in the House are willing to admit that the task of drafting the nations budget is above their capablity and they want to surrender the House to the Democrats, then Republicans had better stop squealing and step up to the plate and produce a budget.
As said many times before, Democrats are not doing anything different than what the Republicans did when they were the minority. It is funny to watch you try to spin this mr. roam. At the end of the day poop is still poop. Republicans have a responsiblity that they yet again seem incapable of fulfilling.
