You're going to hear plenty about the Republican Paul Ryan budget plan this campaign season, but you won't hear much about a Democrat budget. Why? They haven't voted on one in the Dem-controlled US Senate in 1,092 days.
In an interview last night with Fox News's Bret Baier that is making the rounds on the internet, Democrat National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz gives a bumbling and awkward defense of why Democrats haven't voted on a budget, explaining Americans don't care about that because it's "process."
On April 29, it will mark three years that Democrats in the US Senate have not voted on a budget.
Check it out here:
Baier points out that Wasserman-Schultz said on Fox News a few weeks ago that she expected Democrats in the Senate to take up a budget. But Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) said last week:
“This is the wrong time to vote in committee; this is the wrong time to vote on the floor. I don’t think we will be prepared to vote before the election.”
With Democrats' majority in the US Senate threatened this year, they are afraid of taking any votes than could harm their vulnerable incumbents.
Cowardice is no way to win an election.
I’ll be sure to revisit this one in the event that the GOP takes the Senate, and y’all start complaining about how those darn Democrats logjam the Senate and keep honest (tee hee) Republicans from doing their jobs.
It only takes 51 votes to pass a budget. There are 54 Senators in the Democratic Senate Caucus. Do the math.
Too bad you can’t make a case without resorting to insult, though.
You ignored my point, which is Dems don’t need a single Republican vote to pass their budget. So why haven’t they?
is something Ari has perfected over the last year or so.
he comes to CPP, where liberals fear to tread. Hopefully next time Pols sends a brighter troll though. Forgetting about the super-majority Dems had in 2009?
was that even when they had the votes they didn’t have the votes because not all of the Democratic caucus in the Senate were real Democrats. (I think that they were referring to Joe Lieberman’s refusal to be purged). Of course it doesn’t explain why the Botox Queen didn’t get anything passed in the House while they had control there.