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good job getting your analysis from right wing media and pushing the lies they tell you moondog Send a noteboard - 05/04/2013 07:04:05 PM

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You are correct in that the white house does not pass a budget (the President only signs or vetoes what is passed by Congress). However, the executive branch is required by law to submit a budget proposal by a specific date each year, a requirement that this admisistration has NEVER met.

actually, he's met it once. going through the link below, we see that GWB never submitted one by the required date either. however, i don't hear anyone claiming bush never submitted a budget.


View original postTo date, no budget has been passed since Obama was elected, including the first 2 years of his administration when his party controlled both houses of Congress. For that matter, they didn't even try to pass one.

actually, a budget passed this year: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/23/us-usa-fiscal-budget-idUSBRE92M02D20130323
and before that one was passed in 2009. but the last one before that was 1997.


View original postEvery year since the Republicans took back control of the House a budget has been passed by the house of Representatives, though no budget has been passed by the Democrat controlled Senate. The only budgets that have even been brought to the floor for a vote have been the ones submitted by the president (late though they were) and have been resoundingly voted down by that body (I think the closest any of his budgets came to passing was when 1 vote in favor of it was cast).

and? see above for the last budget passed by the senate just last month. there were also no budgets passed for 12 years but why are you not complaining about the republican controlled senate not passing a budget when bush was president? if you're that concerned with the budget process then you should also condemn the years between 1997 and 2009 when a budget was not passed by republican controlled senates.


View original postWhen it comes to the economy of this nation, the Executive branch has been completely AWOL, preferring to play PR games to actually addressing and posibly fixing the problems.
You can like their budgets or not, but at least the House Republicans have done their job, unlike the Senate or the White House.

and how have house republicans done their jobs? from where i sit it looks like house republicans would rather spend 80 hours trying to de-fund obamacare rather than do any serious legislating of their own. not to mention the stupid version of VAWA which they put up before voting on the real bill which passed the senate 78-22. and i could pull plenty of other ways house republicans have spent more time doing PR stunts rather than pass legislation. there is lots of grandstanding on both sides of the issue, but stop pretending the house republicans are trying to do anything but sandbag obama's proposals.

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President Obama and Defense Secretary Hagel take pay cuts to lessen impact of sequester moondog - 03/04/2013 09:47:45 PM 719 Views
Well, it's more of a CYA-against-bad-press symbolic gesture than an impressive one. Burr - 03/04/2013 10:15:40 PM 608 Views
considering that nobody in Congress is losing pay or their job, it's a good precedent IMHO moondog - 03/04/2013 10:43:45 PM 459 Views
The sequester was Obama's idea, so he should CYA. Anonymous2000 - 04/04/2013 12:16:59 AM 525 Views
The US economony only lost 3.1 percent between 2008 to 2009 Roland00 - 04/04/2013 03:55:05 AM 553 Views
We do need to cut, cut, cut... callandor1000 - 10/04/2013 03:38:45 PM 651 Views
I don't care about any quantities under a million Roland00 - 04/04/2013 03:40:25 AM 481 Views
the president can't pass a budget you know.... moondog - 04/04/2013 04:45:38 AM 495 Views
No, but he is required by law to submit one, and he has not. HyogaRott - 05/04/2013 06:10:24 PM 519 Views
good job getting your analysis from right wing media and pushing the lies they tell you moondog - 05/04/2013 07:04:05 PM 641 Views
good job on displaying more of your ignorance or willful blindness HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:34:27 PM 507 Views
quoting from the second article you linked..... moondog - 06/04/2013 04:23:48 PM 472 Views
*SIGH* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 12:58:12 AM 551 Views
They need to cut hundreds of billions, not millions; and not over a fake 10 year period either. *NM* HyogaRott - 05/04/2013 06:13:37 PM 248 Views
yes, because everyone knows the way out of recession is to prevent job creation *NM* moondog - 05/04/2013 07:04:49 PM 258 Views
Federal spending can not create real, sustainable, job growth. *NM* HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:39:52 PM 285 Views
it doesn't have to, that's why they call it "stimulus" *NM* moondog - 06/04/2013 04:08:04 PM 274 Views
Yeah, and I can call your mama, your daddy, but it don't change who they are. *NM* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 01:15:05 AM 256 Views
Yes we need to cut hundreds of billions of dollars Roland00 - 06/04/2013 03:17:01 AM 480 Views
Not really HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:54:56 PM 482 Views
as long as debt and/or deficit is less than GDP they are manageable moondog - 06/04/2013 04:30:42 PM 610 Views
Deficits HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 01:13:41 AM 474 Views
Deficits are a big deal with times are good Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:40:36 AM 489 Views
Re: Not really Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:29:59 AM 756 Views
You do know why we use 10 year time periods with cbo numbers right? *NM* Roland00 - 06/04/2013 03:17:41 AM 265 Views
Yeah, so they can claim a dime of imaginary savings is a dollar. *NM* HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:37:39 PM 245 Views
No anything past 10 years in projections are a joke. Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:02:32 AM 540 Views
Anything past 1 year is a joke/lie becuase the next Congrees will do what it wants regardless. *NM* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 03:08:39 PM 274 Views
Ya know, semi-tangent but I just had an amusing notion about elected official pay Isaac - 10/04/2013 07:12:56 PM 545 Views
it would require a constitutional amendment, but i think we could get it to pass.... *NM* moondog - 10/04/2013 11:24:26 PM 263 Views
I'm not sure it would, it could be made voluntary too Isaac - 10/04/2013 11:41:54 PM 511 Views
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