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Title: Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate [LMFAO!!!]
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URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog ... a-budget-defeated-99-0-senate/
Published: May 16, 2012
Author: By Stephen Dinan
Post Date: 2012-05-16 18:03:48 by Capitalist Eric
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Views: 2898
Comments: 5
President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it.
Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.
Republicans forced the vote by offering the president's plan on the Senate floor.
Democrats disputed that it was actually the president's plan, arguing that the slim amendment didn't actually match Mr. Obama's budget document, which ran thousands of pages. But Republicans said they used all of the president's numbers in the proposal, so it faithfully represented his plan.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, even challenged Democrats to point out any errors in the numbers and he would correct them — a challenge no Democrats took up.
"A stunning development for the president of the United States in his fourth year in office," Mr. Sessions said of the unanimous opposition.
The White House has held its proposal out as a "balanced approach" to beginning to rein in deficits. It calls for tax increases to begin to offset higher spending, and would begin to level off debt as a percentage of the economy by 2022. It would produce $6.4 trillion in new deficits over that time.
By contrast the chief Republican alternative from the House GOP would notch just $3.1 trillion in deficits, and three Senate Republican alternatives would all come in below $2 trillion.
The Senate is holding votes Wednesday on Mr. Obama's budget, the House GOP's budget and the three Senate Republican alternatives. None was expected to gain the 50 votes needed to pass the chamber.
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It calls for tax increases to begin to offset higher spending, and would begin to level off debt as a percentage of the economy by 2022. It would produce $6.4 trillion in new deficits over that time.
Un-freaking-believable.
#2. To: We The People (#1)
Who'd have thunk it...?
o'Bungler: "Yes we can!"
Congress: "No, you CAN'T!"
LoonyMing: I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires.
Translation: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?' —Stephen Fry
#3. To: Capitalist Eric (#2)
Who'd have thunk it...?o'Bungler: "Yes we can!" Congress: "No, you CAN'T!"
Who'd have thought Congress would have the balls to deny the chosen one?
#4. To: We The People (#3)
OTOH, they certainly did not have the brass to deny him the NDAA, or over-ride his disgusting EOs.
LoonyMing: I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires.
Translation: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?' —Stephen Fry
#5. To: Capitalist Eric (#4)
Which means they wanted them just as he did.
The entire government is corrupt and traitorous.
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