DEMOCRATS: THE PARTY OF SCOFFLAWS

It is no wonder that a compromise cannot be reached over the current debt negotiations.  The Democrats are so fiscally irresponsible that Congressional Republicans are refusing to let them get away with it anymore.     

The Congressional Budget Act requires the federal government to operate under a duly enacted budget, and sets out an annual timetable for the Congressional budget process. The Democrats have simply been ignoring the law because they think it is in their political interest to do so. They don’t want voters to see, in black and white, their plan to raise taxes while simultaneously expanding the national debt, with no end in sight.  Currently, the Democrats are bringing to the Senate floor a series of appropriations bills for FY 2012, which begins in October. This is plainly illegal under the Congressional Budget Act, Section 303(c)(1) of which provides:

(c) APPLICATION TO APPROPRIATION MEASURES IN THE SENATE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Until the concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year has been agreed to and an allocation has been made to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate under section 302(a) for that year, it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any appropriation bill or joint resolution, amendment or motion thereto, or conference report thereon for that year or any subsequent year.

The Democrats intend to circumvent Section 303(c)(1) by asking for the Senate’s unanimous consent to waive that provision. I hope Senate Republicans will be smart enough to oppose it.

The Democrats are a party of scofflaws. Not just conservatives, but all Americans should write their Senators in an effort to require the people’s business to be conducted legally, in public and with transparency...NOT THE WAY OBAMA HAS BEEN DOING IT SINCE HE GOT ELECTED!   

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