This is what happens when the Democrats refuse to pass an actual budget. . . . . . . . . . . for three years running. In 2010 and 2011, no attempt whatsoever was made to create and pass budget legislation. Democrats owned both houses of Congress and, apparently, saw the need to create a budget as a negative for them, so they skipped the process . . . . . first time in American history for this. Fiscal year 2012 (which began on October 1 of this year), is a little different. The Republican controlled House actually passed a budget and sent it to the Senate, where it sits in some committee or on Hapless Harry's desk, without a vote in sight.
HUD, the Ag Department, the FDA and the Department of Transportation were all about to exceed their spending authority. Thursday night at midnight was the deadline. No hand wringing. No reporting in the Marxist Media about the "sky is falling, the sky is falling." The blame game was nowhere to be heard.
When I described this C.R. as the first temporary spending bill for fiscal 2012, I was talking about the first of several (no bout) spending bills to fund the Federal government and its several departments. There was an earlier vote, a C.R. vote on October 5. Its purpose was a little different, however. That C.R. was for $2.6 billion as a down payments on Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee and aid to several states to help cover costs for in-state, natural disasters; wildfires, tornadoes and the like.
Why is this the first time you [may] have heard of these spending resolutions? Because there are times, more than you are led to believe, when the various factions in Congress work effectively together. As mentioned above, the spending bills were quietly passed and signed into law without a hitch, proving that all the infighting typical to previous C.R. battles were more for show than anything else. In the end, they were all passed. And with the two most recent Resolutions, we now know that all that nasty rhetoric was for show, a political game played on the American people.
Why the difference between "then" and "now?" Obama has begun to play out his campaign strategy and it is this: he intends to run against a "do nothing Congress." Of course, he means "the GOP," but he can't say "do nothing Congress" without indicting his own party as well. Hopefully, Congress has decided to not play that game.
By the way, I still believe there will be an agreement in the Super Committee. If I am right, that will happen sometime on Monday.
Original Commentary by J Smithson
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