The House Republicans have passed a budget every year since 2011 when they took control of the house. But their budget bills have never been voted on in the Senate because Dirty Harry will not allow their bills to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote. So how in the hell can you say that the Republicans have stalled the budget process since day 1.
Obie has done an excellent job of making himself look like shit, all by himself. He doesn't need any help from the Republicans.
And I think I am starting to catch on to your line of thinking. Everything that conservatives say is meaningless rhetoric and talking talks because it does not jive with your revisionist history. Is that about right?
Originally Posted by NiceGuy53
no, this is about it ...
After Obama submitted his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal on Feb. 13, 2012, House Republicans put it up for a floor vote.
The result: 414-0 against.
The same thing happened a year earlier in the Senate. That vote: 97-0 against. Democrats didn’t support the plan because it has been supplanted by another deficit-reduction plan Obama had later outlined. Republican leaders demanded a vote on Obama’s budget to show that Democrats don’t support any detailed budget blueprint,
according to The Hill.
Such votes are taken "just as a means of embarrassing the president and his party," said Patrick Louis Knudsen, a senior fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation.
"Usually it’s brought up by the opposition party because they generally anticipate that a president’s budget won’t get very much support especially if it has controversial elements to it," he said.
Other experts agree. Said Steve Ellis, of Taxpayers for Common Sense: "That was pure political theater and was done to score rhetorical points."
And Norman Ornstein, a scholar with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said, "it doesn’t mean a damn thing. It’s only a symbolic gesture."
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at the end of the day a leading conservative from Heritage, and the AEI gives the bottom line to the floor vote.
embarrassment
symbolism
political teater
in other words, typical republican politics
educated individuals made nothing of the vote or the tally, idiots on the other hand still bring it up to this very day.
Cya idiots.