Desperate Democrats STILL blaming Republicans for govt shutdown, after not passing any budgets for four years! (Congress, regular)
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The big-spending Democrats are still trying to avoid blame for the recent government shutdown - a shutdown that would have been avoided if they had simply done their duty as required by the Constitution, and passed a budget to negotiate and reconcile with the Republicans, as has been done by virtually every Congress since George Washington's time.
But for the past four years, we have seen the astonishing spectacle of a party with a majority in the Senate, unable to pass its own budget. Even when the President (of their own party) submitted one, the Democrats unanimously voted it down!
The Republican majority in the House, in the meantime, has passed budgets like clockwork and sent them to the Senate to begin the usual negotiation process... only to see the Democrats declare them "DOA" and refuse to even read them, much less negotiate on points they didn't like. They treated the Continuing Resolutions sent by the House, the same way. No negotiations, no reading, "My way or the highway". And to no one's surprise, the government ran out of money and shut down.
And after flatly refusing any cooperation, those same Democrats then announced it it was Republicans who were "holding a gun to our heads" as shutdown neared, "Holding the government hostage" as Democrats refused to even negotiate.
Most hilariously, after four years of refusing to pass budgets or even negotiate, these Democrats announced it was the Republicans who were "refusing to negotiate during the regular order of Congressional business".
Democrats never negotiated even when "regular order" was happening. They never even passed a budget for four years, while Republicans in the House passed budgets regularly, every time, on schedule, and sent them to the Senate for normal negotiations and reconciliation... conforming to the "normal order" of Congressional business. And now the Democrats are trying to blame Republicans for the lack of negotiations for those four years???
What these people lack in memory and integrity, they more than make up for in sheer balls.
When George Orwell described the "doublethink" that an intransigent government engaged in, his only mistake was that he didn't extend it to the triplethink and quadruplethink our Democrats of today, are engaging in to avoid acknowledging the true cause of the recent shutdown.
Last edited by Little-Acorn; 10-17-2013 at 11:31 AM..
The big-spending Democrats are still trying to avoid blame for the recent government shutdown - a shutdown that would have been avoided if they had simply done their duty as required by the Constitution, and passed a budget to negotiate and reconcile with the Republicans, as has been done by virtually every Congress since George Washington's time.
But for the past four years, we have seen the astonishing spectacle of a party with a majority in the Senate, unable to pass its own budget. Even when the President (of their own party) submitted one, the Democrats unanimously voted it down!
The Republican majority in the House, in the meantime, has passed budgets like clockwork and sent them to the Senate to begin the usual negotiation process... only to see the Democrats declare them "DOA" and refuse to even read them, much less negotiate on points they didn't like. They treated the Continuing Resolutions sent by the House, the same way. No negotiations, no reading, "My way or the highway". And to no one's surprise, the government ran out of money and shut down.
And after flatly refusing any cooperation, those same Democrats then announced it it was Republicans who were "holding a gun to our heads" as shutdown neared, "Holding the government hostage" as Democrats refused to even negotiate.
Most hilariously, after four years of refusing to pass budgets or even negotiate, these Democrats announced it was the Republicans who were "refusing to negotiate during the regular order of Congressional business".
Democrats never negotiated even when "regular order" was happening. They never even passed a budget for four years, while Republicans in the House passed budgets regularly, every time, on schedule, and sent them to the Senate for normal negotiations and reconciliation... conforming to the "normal order" of Congressional business. And now the Democrats are trying to blame Republicans for the lack of negotiations for those four years???
What these people lack in memory and integrity, they more than make up for in sheer balls.
When George Orwell described the "doublethink" that an intransigent government engaged in, his only mistake was that he didn't extend it to the triplethink and quadruplethink our Democrats of today, are engaging in to avoid acknowledging the true cause of the recent shutdown.
You're a pretty bad liar. The Senate passed a budget on March 23rd and then asked for bicameral negotiations no less than 19 times. Shut down by Republicans every single time.
The big-spending Democrats are still trying to avoid blame for the recent government shutdown - a shutdown that would have been avoided if they had simply done their duty as required by the Constitution, and passed a budget to negotiate and reconcile with the Republicans, as has been done by virtually every Congress since George Washington's time..
OOPS! The Democrats passed a budget in March. GOP refused to reconcile.
Yet another L-A diatribe fail. Ho, hum...you're getting boring.
OOPS! The Democrats passed a budget in March. GOP refused to reconcile.
Yet another L-A diatribe fail. Ho, hum...you're getting boring.
Ya gotta wonder where he gets the time to write these novels. Could he possibly be one of those [shudder] leeches that he and his buddies whine about here all the time?
You don't see Democrats running around trying spin this story away. How many conservative threads have you right-wingers posted today claiming that it wasn't the nutcases in the GOP plan to shutdown the government?
Great post. The problem with it is that the Obama/DNC cheerleaders who read it are immune to facts. It's all a big us versus them game for them, with them shaking the pom pons for their hero Obama.
They simply do not care about unsustainable debt and unfunded liabilities, not to mention real solutions to these very real problems.
The one thing that this latest shutdown has proven beyond any doubt is this: When the national debt eclipses $20T or $30T and the inevitable collapse follows, it will be squarely on the shoulders of the Democrats. They'll still lie about it and blame the Republicans, but that won't change the reality that THEY are in power and THEY are doing nothing about a serious problem.
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