Government "shut down" is just around the corner and this time, the people will blame the Democrats who could have passed a budget but did not.

Understand that a CR (Continuing Resolution) is a stop gap measure used, in this case, to open up temporary funding for the government when no budget consideration is available.

In the most inane act of irresponsibility in American history, the 111th Congress, wholly controlled by the Socialist Democrat Party, refused to entertain a budget of any kine -- not even an outline of a 2011 fiscal year budget.

Here is what I say to the GOP: Go for it !! Make the cuts and let the budget "crisis" shutdown the government. After all, we are having this debate, now, because of the irresponsibility of the Dems. The budget should have been past into law six months ago (October 1 of 2010) -- before the midterm elections

This is all -- and I repeat "all" -- the fault of the Dems. They could have passed a budget WITHOUT ANY OPPOSITION from the GOP, before the November midterms.

I firmly do not believe the 2012 election will be lost over this budget crisis. Not at all. But you will hear nothing else but this prediction, at least for next two or three months. As soon as seniors realize their checks will continue to be written; as long as the medicare recipient continues to receive their benefits; as soon as the unemployed see their unemployment checks each month, the folks will not be so harsh on the GOP.

And what remains? Well, first you have the jobs crisis - improving but not nearly what it needs to be. Real unemployment is around 16 %. You have this evolving mess in Libya, complicated by the fact that we do not not know who we are helping to victory. Sure, they are the "rebels," but no one in the Obama Administration thought to ask who these Arab rebels are.
We know al Qaeda is helping the rebels but we do not know to what extent? And then, there is that pesky birther thingy. No one knows where the darn certificate is -- and Democrat pundits have tried to find it, make no mistake. And what if GM fails? Obama has been supporting the company with money taken from who knows where (Fannie Mae?). In the first quarter of 2010, GM announced that it had paid back 6.6 billion dollars "5 years early." Turns out, that is impossible because GM make no money in 2010 or 2009 or 2008, for that matter.

Here is one aspect of the Obama story that is not getting any press: Obama's Administration gets much of its intel on foreign matters from reading the newspaper . . . . seriously. It is a little scary. In Libya, it is more than scary, it is expensive and if "luck" does not roll in Obama's favor, it may cost him his presidency regardless of the budget crisis. He went into Libya with his eyes completely closed - "blind," if you will. And if the budget crisis blows up in the Democrats' face, their chances of winning in 2012 are virtually none existent.
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