So, the Senate leadership is kicking its constitutional duties over to the executive branch based on another platitudinous Obama speech that negated his own budget presented two months earlier. Let me repeat that Democrat's have not allowed a budget to pass in over two years and counting. That's change you can believe in!The Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday to reject a $3.7 trillion budget plan that President Obama sent to Capitol Hill in February.
Ninety-seven senators voted against a motion to take it up.
Democratic aides said ahead of the vote that the Democratic caucus would not support the plan because it has been supplanted by the deficit-reduction plan Obama outlined at a speech at George Washington University in April.
The Democrat party has backed itself into a corner as it has moved so far left that any plan to the right of the extreme People’s Budget presented in April by the radical Congressional Progressive Caucus will get no real support from the base. That’s the only Democrat plan that’s been presented and even though it was dead on arrival, the People’s Budget (Read Here) was received favorably by a significant number of Democrats and members of the Media.
But that budget - dripping with Marxist anger - was too honest about the left’s intentions and is so politically toxic and economically insane that it makes any PR problems with Ryan’s plan look insignificant by comparison. Democrats know they can’t put together any major plan that will get party support and wont send voters running to the GOP alternative.
Republican’s need to realize they’re in a good position here if they take their last chance to grow a set and take an unequivocal stand. If not now, when? Ryan, and now, Pawlenty, are leading and treating Americans like adults who have to make hard choices. It remains to be seen if the rest of the party will follow.
