Senate Dems refuse to do their job

[Horn6721]

"Sen. Kent Conrad (D-S.D.) had a bright idea: The Senate should pass a budget. It was a fine insight, since it legally is supposed to do just that but hasn’t in about three years. He decided he would use the Simpson-Bowles debt commission proposal. Sounds like a respectable idea. But then the Senate Democrats and Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) swooped in, forcing Conrad to retreat. No votes on the budget! Don’t make us show our hand!

Pathetically, Conrad announced, “This is the wrong time to vote in committee; this is the wrong time to vote on the floor. I don’t think we will be prepared to vote before the election.” If that isn’t the perfect encapsulation of the Senate Democrats’ complete political cowardice and abdication of responsibility, I don’t know what is.


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I give Conrad some props for trying to get this done but Reid?
a POS
IIRC Reid didn't't even pass a budget when he had a clear majority and the House was still Dem

 

[I35]

This should be an outrage by the American people. Not often our politicians admit to putting an election first over what should be done for the American people. They are actually not only not doing their job, it's the law that they do it. Just another example of dictating instead of doing what the American people sent them there to do.

At the same time the idiot named Harry Reid is telling Republican John Mica "to get a life" because he is wanting action on the GSA. So I guess Reid just wants all the GSA stuff to be over looked. It's okay for GSA to blow the American tax payers money as long as it's in Vegas.

 

[HornHuskerDad]

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[hornpharmd]

I agree. But I also understand the Republicans have failed to pass the bipartisan budget proposal that would have gained support in the Senate since it was bipartisan. I would like to see them pass that and then see what happens. If the Senate did nothing with that then your opinion of the Senate would be more valid.

As of now I see the same problem in both parties and thus in both the House and Senate. House is just voting for certain things for political reasons but they know they aren't really trying to get something passed that will have a chance of being signed by the President.