WH Chief of Staff Errs on Senate Budget Rules

A do nothing Democrat Senate.

The Senate Democrats are in a tough position ; they have the votes to pass a budget but that enormous budget request is itself nearly wholly dictated by 8 years of GOP wild eyed warmongering borrowing at massive levels and is exactly the kind of sophist rhetoric ammunition that FOX and Drudge ittes cannot get enough of . Bush starts a raging bonfire with the US economy as tinder and then the conservatives try as hard as they can in every disingenuous way imaginable to blame Obama and the Democrats for having to ask the US taxpayer for expensive water ( i.e. a gigantic budget request ) to put out the fire THEY started out initially . I don’t blame the Democrats at all for waiting until after the election either . The conservatives in US politics cannot be trusted to be honest or play by the rules in any respect so I completely agree with what the Senate Dems are doing now , e.g. just postpone the actual vote and use separate appropriations bills in the meantime to make the conservatives look like the true obstructionists , which indeed they are .

curmudgeonly troll | February 12, 2012, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm wrote
“How do you bring it to a vote without a filibuster-proof majority?
If you’re going to write an article on he was wrong, you need to clarify how, what it would take to bring it to a vote, what is actually preventing it. ”

There can be NO filibuster on the budget. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344) automatically limits Senate debate on budget bills to 50 hours. After that time has expired, only 51 votes are needed to pass a budget. The Dems control 53 votes. The only thing preventing Senate Dems from passing a budget for the last 1019 days was the Dems themselves.

How far from the truth can this be the Dems have decided to forgo a budget vote just as they did in the last budget vote … we don’t need no stinkin budget”! Obama 2012 budget vote was 97 to zip how’s that for bipartisanship? Since you only need 51 votes … how many dems are in the Senate again? Last I looked there are 54 of them!

I’m not sure you can trust anybody in politics. It’s a matter of who can you trust the most.

What the WH refuses to admit is that Sen Reid won’t bring up anything for a vote lately…

Just more baloney from the nations divider in chief..envy.. class warfare..scandals… trampling on the constitution..the beat goes on

OBAMA____VS___AMERICA

I used to support President Barack Husseim Obama, I really did, but with all due respect, really, Barack Hussein is a opportunistic liar.

“You can’t pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes and you can’t get 60 votes without bipartisan support,” Lew said.

When asked about the discrepancy, a White House official said “the chief of staff was clearly referencing the general gridlock in Congress that makes accomplishing even the most basic tasks nearly impossible given the Senate Republicans’ insistence on blocking an up or down vote on nearly every issue.”

What? What the Chief of Staff was “clearly referencing” was “pass a BUDGET in the Senate,” because what he said was, and I quote, exactly, “pass a BUDGET in the Senate”! I don’t mind the mistakes; I don’t even mind the disagreements, but a bold-faced opportunistic lying ideological partisan plug like that is dishonest, dishonorable, disingenuous and utterly reprehensible. Just come out and say it, Barack Hussein: my budget won’t pass the United States Senate because the only thing bipartisan about it is bipartisan opposition. It is time we had a President who isn’t a disingenuous liar. It is time for Romney ’12, PUMA!

Posted by: Rafe | February 12, 2012, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

Over 3.7 million jobs have been added since Obama’s policies hit full stride. Oil production in the country is up. Green energy production in the country is up. GM is back at the #1 car company in the world! Third shifts are being added at automotive plants. Bin Laden is dead. Kaddafhi is gone. Many, many al Qaeda leaders are gone. All of the world including Russia and China are onside against Iranian nuclear development. Nuclear inspectors are back in Iran. The stock market has gone up hugely since Obama’s policies began to kick in. This is a top of the line administration.

Had Bush or any Republican accomplished all of this in 3 years, the right wingers would be creaming their jeans and calling him one of the greatest presidents of all time. Trouble is – it isn’t Bush – it’s Obama – and right wingers are biased hypocrites.

Cheers.

Dang! Obama even has members of his staff lying! It never stops with these guys!

“In this case, political observers believe Reid is reluctant to have Democrats vote on a large budget full of deficits and tax increases that Republicans can use to run against them.” I TOLD YOU!

This is all becoming rather unbelieveable. It gets worse by the day.

Posted by: newcountryman | February 12, 2012, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm

Like did you just wake up from a long stupor?

Do you not recall how people in the Bush White House were charged with criminal acitivities while there? Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush were caught ‘stretching the truth’ repeatedly.

Do you not recall how Reagan ran an illegal shadow government carrying out illegal international activities out of sight of the Congress and out of sight of the people that elected them.

Criminal charges brought and convictions attained against both White Houses.

You need to get some perspective. We don’t want Republicans in there again.

charlene wrote:”It’s the same variation by you everyday – Obama is evil, Obama is the devil, Obama is an alien, Obama is . … etc, etc. etc.”
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Your words, not mine…. but now that you mention it…. well… I can’t disagree with you on this.

Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | February 12, 2012, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

Did you just wake up from a long stupor?

Do you not recall how people in the Bush White House were charged with criminal activities while there? Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush were caught ‘stretching the truth’ repeatedly.

Do you not recall how Reagan ran an illegal shadow government carrying out illegal international activities out of sight of the Congress and out of sight of the people that elected them.

Criminal charges brought and convictions attained against both White Houses.

You need to get some perspective.

I’m not sure you can trust anybody in politics. It’s a matter of who can be trusted most.

A motion to proceed requires 60 votes as well as many other procedural motions that can be introduced by any dissenting senator. Last year a deal was struck in the senate to pass a budget resolution. Sen Demint demanded that the entire bill, this required 60 votes to block. Reid had to pull the bill

Thank God for President Obama…

bless his family, bless his hard work for this country.

Keep up the good work…and thanks for removing
Osama Bin Laden from this earth

Cheers.

Posted by: Dan | February 12, 2012, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

Americans don’t use that phrase. Brits and Canadians do.

Dan, please tell us were the oil production is up, not here in the US. The EPA makes it impossible to get new permits or drill, just because Pres.Obama says so, don’t make it so.
Charlene,Les, and the rest of you Pres.Obama minions,A lie is a lie, Sen. Reid refuses to bring anything to the floor, he already said, he will NOT bring Pres.Obamas budget proposal to the floor, he does not need a budget.

Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | February 12, 2012, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

Again Michelle you show the limitations of your perspective.

People in both the Bush and Reagan White Houses were charged and convicted of criminal activities.

Jake Tapper……..Shouldn’t you be spending your time investigating why Republicans are taking their orders from a child molesting organization(Catholic Church)…John Kennedy is probably rolling over in his grave. He had to give a speech promising not to take orders from the Catholic church. Now we have a bunch of right wing republicans and some misguided democrats trying to push Church doctrine across the entire country.

All people who refuse to work but instead spend their days coming up with new ways to steal from taxpayers should be charged and convicted of criminal activities

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Now hold on there! Everything we do is usually perfectly legal!

How hypocritical of the Democrats to not take responsibility for being in control of both houses of Congress from 2006-2010, and trying to lay this blame on the Republicans. The shellacking of 2010 occurred for a reason and the Liberals haven’t learned their lesson.

Guess Jake Tapper never heard of the passage of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 that was passed on November 18, 2011 or the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 as well as the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2012, both of which were passed on December 23, 2011 which approbated the FY 2012 budget.

Funny how the media fools buy into the fraudulent GOP talking point that no budget was passed for 1,000 days when the facts are that it was passed within those three bills (now law).

He wasn’t confused…he just lied knowing that 90+% of the viewers would buy it.

As for the “continuing resolutions”….this is just a way to avoid real cuts in dollars or pet programs and to obtain automatic increases that could not be achieved with a budget.

Guess Jake Tapper never heard of the passage of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 that was passed on November 18, 2011 or the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 as well as the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2012, both of which were passed on December 23, 2011 which approbated the FY 2012 budget.

Funny how the media fools buy into the fraudulent GOP talking point that no budget was passed for 1,000 days when the facts are that it was passed within those three bills (now law).

Posted by: Mitchell Gore | February 13, 2012, 4:03 am 4:03 am

The same continuing appropriations were used extensively through the Bush administration – something the Republicans conveniently forget to mention.

Continuing resolutions and stuffing money in bills are not passing the budget. Anyhoo….

Posted by: Stan | February 13, 2012, 8:18 am 8:18 am

The same continuing appropriations were used extensively throughout the Bush administration – something the Republicans conveniently forget to mention.

Posted by: Dave | February 13, 2012, 8:23 am 8:23 am

Still shilling for Obama day and night? Why don’t find a job and pay taxes like everyone else? Taxpayers don’t like leeches.

So now the liberal Left’s Obama robots’ argument has now been reduced to; “Well, Bush did it too!” With just a touch of whining….

POSTED BY: DAN | FEBRUARY 12, 2012, 10:22 PM 10:22 PM you apparently are not affiliated with the oil or gas business, nor have a clue how it works.

Lew knows that if he tosses the bait… CNN viewers will swallow it.

It has nothing to do with truth and integrity… “The ends justify the means”!

Media and journalists: Please stop using the title or reference White House (Senate, Congressional, etc.) “official or spokesperson” in your postings. These individuals have names so please start using them. It will give the reader insight into who is speaking and allow us to form opinions as to who is credible and who is merely a spineless and cowardly mouthpiece.

Posted by: Jesse | February 13, 2012, 8:59 am 8:59 am

Since when is asking someone to work and pay taxes an insult?

It’s not very smart for Obama to run against a do nothing Demo Senate.
How can he win running against his own party?

Clinton’s former budget director used highly misleading language that blamed Republicans for the failure of the Democratic leadership. You don’t even need 50 votes, just a simple majority. He should know better, so he’s lying. Case closed.

Much as I would like to give Lew the benefit of the doubt, what he said was just not true. And he repeated his false statement.

Every bit as troubling were the reactions of the “moderators,” David Gregory and George Stephanopolis. Neither reacted to Lew’s false claims or asked any serious follow up questions.

OK, the Dems had the House AND 60 Senators for TWO years!

Why was there no budgets passed?

OBAMA AND HIS STAFF, PROVING JOE WILSON RIGHT ONE STATEMENT AT A TIME !

Yes, of course Steve. Killing Osama Bin Laden was Bush’s #1 priority.

“Who knows if he’s hiding in some cave or not, we haven’t heard from him in a long time…and the idea of focusing on one person idicates to me people really dont understand the scope of the mission…I don’t know where he is…I just don’t spend that much time thinking about him”
- George W. Bush, 2002