Senate voted against the U.S. House of Representatives budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year, 40-57. The House bill was sponsored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
The Senate floor is considering four measures today on the 2012 budget. A simple majority (51) is necessary for any of the bills to advance. Despite electoral losses in 2010, Democrats still possess a majority in the upper chamber 51-47, with two Independents caucusing with the majority. The outcome on the Ryan plan was largely expected to fail. In recent weeks, several GOP lawmakers have backed away from the extreme cuts the House budget called for.
In addition, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told reporters he planned to defer work on a 2012 budget indefinitely.
Of course, the absence of a spending plan doesn't mean Reid and his Democratic pals don't want to keep spending.
They are nearly apoplectic in their desire to raise the debt limit beyond $14.3 trillion so they can keep on spending without a care as to the consequences, accountability or revenues.
Imagine trying to run your business like that.
Imagine trying to run your home like that.
Now imagine trying to run the biggest government in the history of the world like that.
That is the sheer arrogance, incompetence and defiance of the rule of law that we see from the Democratic leadership in the Senate.
The law requires that Congress pass a budget by April 15 of every year. But Harry Reid's Senate hasn't done that since 2009. Even then it was late by two weeks.
Nevertheless, not having a spending plan hasn't stopped the Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress until January of this year from bailing out banks and financial institutions, creating a massive new bureaucracy that would run health care in America, nationalizing automobile companies, etc.
In fact, it really makes it easier to do whatever you want to do without a written plan, doesn't it?
If ever there were an argument in favor of freezing borrowing by Washington, this is it.
What Reid and company are trying to do represents the biggest scam in history – to spend without a plan, without accountability, without public oversight, without answering to the law, without question or debate.
It's a complete reinvention of government.
Why concern yourself with tax revenues if you've got a limitless credit card?
Why concern yourself with constitutional limits on power if you have nothing but contempt for the rule of law?
Why concern yourself with fiscal propriety if your goal is more and more government control over every aspect of American life?
Why worry about debt when it will have to be dealt with long after you're dead and gone?
Once upon a time in America, we heard vigorous debates about tax increases and borrowing. Reid and Obama and company have figured out a way to avoid all that messiness. It's called just keep spending. Sooner or later, as the economic nightmare they are creating becomes too big to ignore, then and only then Americans will be handed the bill.
They are spending America into the poor house of socialism. They're doing it right out in the open – and they are telling you what they are doing.
I see only one possible solution to this crisis: that is to persuade at least 218 Republicans in the House of Representatives to just say no to any more borrowing.
We can't wait for 2012 for this. It won't come soon enough. There won't be enough of America left in 2012 to salvage. This is why we sent Republicans to take over the House. They have one thing they can do to save the country this year – and that's to stop the debt limit from being raised. They don't need any help to do this. It just takes "218 Republican votes of a total of 241".
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