Why aren't congressional Democrats going to fulfill their duty to produce a BUDGET

[Water Over Gold]

for 2010? So rather than A) lie or B) just tell us how much the deficit will be this year they C) just don't produce a budget at all. (Cuz you know, people might be upset they've we've created $1.4 trillion deficits two years in a row...........and are projected to have trillion dollar deficits for the next decade.......ouch)

THESE VERY SAME DEMOCRATS heavily criticized Republicans in 2006 on similar ground claiming producing a budget was "the most basic responsibility of governing".............Did Democrats hit their collective heads??

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/104635-dems-wont-pass-budget

House Democrats will not pass a budget blueprint in 2010, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will confirm in a speech on Tuesday.

But Hoyer will vow to crack down on government spending, saying Democrats will enforce spending limits that are lower than what President Barack Obama has called for.

In the scheduled address to the progressive think tank The Third Way, Hoyer will acknowledge that the lower chamber will do things differently this election year.

“It isn’t possible to debate and pass a realistic, long-term budget until we’ve considered the bipartisan commission’s deficit-reduction plan, which is expected in December,” according to Hoyer’s prepared remarks that were provided to The Hill.

http://spectator.org/blog/2010/06/22/democrats-note-even-bothering

It was going to be hard to justify the decade of near-trillion dollar deficits, so the Democrats are now planning on simply skipping the budget resolution. Because of irreconcilable differences between Blue Dogs who favor deficit reduction and liberals who want to pass further stimulus measures, House Democrats won't pass a budget this year, as Majority Leader Steny Hoyer acknowledged yesterday.

Needless to say, Hoyer had some choice words for the House Republicans when they were struggling to pass a budget resolution in 2006:

House Republicans are now on the cusp of failing to meet the most basic responsibility of governing - enacting a budget. The truth is, the American people are not the only ones who are rejecting the Republican Party's policies - so are some Republicans. After years of helping their party and president dig a massive fiscal hole, some Republicans are now running scared that their misguided policies will finally catch up to them at the ballot box this November
Les S..........."You mean like how Republicans didn't show their budget figures for 8 years under Bush? Please, Republicans are experts on deficit spending."

Right, so "change" means "more of the same"...............I wish Obama would have made that clear when he brought all these Democrats into Congress, don't you??

[Uncle Pennybags]

They didn't pass it for a very simple reason. They didn't want the new numbers about the 2010 estimated budget deficit, and also the estimated deficit in the following years, to become public record.

They knew damn well that seeing another $1.4 Trillion deficit + more Trillion dollar deficits on the horizon, would hurt their re-election chances.

Buncha cowards!

[Les S]

You mean like how Republicans didn't show their budget figures for 8 years under Bush? Please, Republicans are experts on deficit spending.

[middleclassman]

Can`t have a budget when you are chasing a derivative bubble.

[Chaz100]

Friend, that's the Dems who have built the multi-trillion debt hole. Where have you been the last 18 months?

[bert]

They want so badly for all the US to be just like California.

I'm not really sure why, though....

[Thomas]

Because they will take a political hit.