Here we go again…except this time, most aren’t even paying attention. Once again, we’re at the point where yet another continuing resolution needs to be passed to keep the gov’t allegedly running past the end of the month, ultimately because a Democrat President and his Senate have refused to work from a budget over the past 3 years! They’re also refusing to make any real cuts and stop spending…surprise. Likewise, Boehner and Cantor are getting weak-kneed and trying to cut any deal they can that might allow them to skirt principle, but still get enough Republicans to cave…double surprise.
Harry Reid says “When two sides can't get everything they want, they meet in the middle…” Let me translate: The middle, or common ground, means doing whatever Harry Reid and Democrat leaders demand!
The Hill reports:
The Senate on Friday rejected a House spending bill to keep the government funded and made plans to return to Washington next week.
In a 59-36 vote, the Senate tabled the House legislation approved early Friday morning. The continuing resolution would keep the government funded through Nov. 18; without a new funding measure, the government would shut down after next Thursday.
Democrats in the Senate object to the bill's funding level for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and were upset over deep cuts to an energy program the GOP reduced as an offset to the increased funds to FEMA.
Who’s the ‘Party of No’? As a HotAir piece accurately states, “So we came within a few inches of actually having you all do your jobs and keep things going and you decided to play tit-for-tat and shoot down the bill to hang on to a pool of money for a “green jobs” incentive program which was largely going unspent anyway? Oh, my.”
Gotta ask. The way the Democrats continue to unrelentingly spend, would it really kill them to shut down the inefficiencies of gov’t, while continuing to keep the constitutionally allotted functions of government running? Or are they playing that little game of ‘if-we-don’t-continue-spending-then-seniors-won’t-receive-their-social-security-checks-and-military-won’t-get-paid’? Huhhh...
