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good job on displaying more of your ignorance or willful blindness HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 06/04/2013 03:34:27 PM

You are correct, I missed the Senate finally passing a budget (with a ridiculous 1 trillion dollar tax hike that still could not balance) 2 weeks ago.

However you are wrong on just about everything else you claimed. There is a major difference between a budget (which was passed every year of GWB's presidency, even with a Democrats controlling the House for 2 years, and Senate for 4 years) and the continuing spending resolutions that have been floating the federal government for the last 4 years. Especially egregious is them not even trying to pass a budget for the first 2 terms when the Dems could pass ANYTHING they wanted, but preferred to pass a bunch of continuing resolutions (keeping the money from the supposed one-time expenditure of the bailout in place)in a pathetic attempt to hide the complete fiscal stupidity they were engaging in.

BTW, I'm not a big fan of GWB and disagreed with many of his policies, so you can take your "right-wing" name calling crap and choke on it. I am a realist, and fit in no wing.

News articles from both left and right leaning publications:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/22/why-senate-democrats-havent-passed-a-budget/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/white-houses-2014-budget-be-tardiest-obamas-presid/

The articles are also interesting for the little tidbits that completely refute your allegations about Bush not submitting budgets or the Senate not passing one since 1997 (and why the current Senate hasn't). It also correct a misstatement of mine by pointing out that Obama did in fact submit 1 budget proposal on time shortly after he cam in office, not that it was actually enacted, or even voted on, in either house.

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