O-fer O
Three strikes and you’re out in baseball; here’s hoping the same standard applies to presidential politics, where Congress tossed yet another major league curveball past an Obama-crafted budget, leaving The One smarting from an 0-for-3 shutout. This from The Hill:
A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday.
In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators present rejected the president’s blueprint.
It’s the second year in a row the Senate has voted down Obama’s budget.
Obama’s 2012 budget failed 97 to 0 last May after Obama himself last April said he wanted deeper deficit cuts.
The House earlier this year unanimously rejected Obama’s budget.
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The GOP forced the votes and believes they showcase the party’s ability to produce plans that eventually balance the budget with the lack of a Democratic alternative.
Republicans have hammered Senate Democrats for their inability to produce a budget, which the GOP notes is approaching three years.
“For three years, Senate Democrats have refused to produce a budget, as required by law,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement. “And today, they soundly rejected the president’s budget proposal which spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much.”
McConnell said Obama’s budget was “bad for jobs because it includes the biggest tax hike in history, it’s bad for seniors because it lets Medicare and Social Security become insolvent and it’s bad for our economy because it fails to address the nation’s $15 trillion debt.”
Democrats whined that the latest budget vote was all cheap political theater concocted by the GOP, because “the resolution offered by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was different from Obama’s budget because it did not include policy report language.” No, just the numbers, including $6.4 trillion in new deficits over the next decade, which apparently was horrific enough to once again have even Democrats fleeing the toxic mess. Meanwhile, Democrats shot down four separate Republican budget proposals that would trim that deficit projection by more than half.
So there you go. The bottom line, for anyone keeping count at home, would be 610 votes against an Obama budget and exactly 0 votes in favor.
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