The Hill 06/22/10: Dems won’t pass budget in 2010

[Zorra]

Dems won’t pass budget in 2010
By Jared Allen -06/22/10 12:01 AM ET

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.
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“At a minimum, the House will not extend the tax cuts benefiting taxpayers of incomes above $250,000 despite some suggestions in the Senate that they be extended along with all other Bush tax cuts.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/104635-dems-wont-pass-budget?page=2#comments

For those new to intra-party politics, the Third Way is a term for the philosophy of arbitrarily shoving conservative economic and social ideology into the Democratic Party platform and down our throats as well. If you want to know why Democrats were so ineffective and deferred to republicans demands on so many issues, it is because the Third Way Party "Democrats" embrace many aspects of republican ideology and are committed to bipartisan "reform", which is another way of saying making the rich a whole lot richer while screwing labor and the middle class. If you want to know why we got slaughtered in the last election, examine how the Third Way Party Dinos constantly stifled genuine Democratic Party reform in every way possible, neutralizing attempts by real Democrats to effect constructive change.

Read between the lines and you'll find that the Third Way Party set us up for the totally republican budget we just had forced upon us, and which is being touted as a wonderful bipartisan victory.:puke:

But the thing is, if the traitors among us, the Third Way Party Dinos, had not refused to pass a budget, we could have already had an awesome, sensible budget based on the genuine time honored Democratic Party principles of helping labor and human beings.

And the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy could have been eliminated, giving our government an estimated $700 billion increase in revenue over a 10 yr. period, making cuts to some domestic social programs unnecessary

[ProSense]

1. The House

should have passed it despite the Senate.

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It’s also the issue that’s destroying what’s left of the Democrats’ jobs agenda as centrist Democrats have balked at the price tag of such measures.

For weeks, Democratic leaders have tried to strike a deal on the budget, which is a non-binding resolution, but to no avail.

The talks triggered splits in the Democratic Caucus, alienating conservative Democrats from their liberal colleagues.

The House’s decision not to pursue a budget resolution comes as the Senate has been struggling to get its companion measure to the floor. And the politics of the moment are a far cry from last year, when the House and Senate easily passed Obama’s first budget on the president’s 100th day in office. The budget measure last year did not attract any GOP support.

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Attack of the blue dogs!

[iwishiwas]

2. and now we are dealing with the horrible fallout--cuts and threats of shutdowns!

[Zorra]

3. Indeed we are. nt

[jwirr]

4. Wonder if any of the Dinos learned anything from this?

[Zorra]

5. I doubt it. I firmly believe that they lean more to the "right"than to the "left", and would

actually prefer and feel more comfortable with a republican congress and WH than any sort of genuinely liberal/progressive Dem congress and WH.

[KoKo]

6. Yep....We were set up.. But, not all together by Blue Dogs...they are just the excuse

for ones who shirk duty and don't use the "rules" the way the Repugs are so crafty and clever with doing.

[Zorra]

7. It does appear that this may be true as well. nt

[nashville_brook]

8. "progressive Third Way" --- puhleeaaasse

[Zorra]

9. Oh yeah, I let out a big *snarf * from that one too.