Sen. Harry Reid still can’t get his priorities straight
November 29, 2012 at 1:53 pm in News by Dustin Siggins 26 Comments
It has been 1,307 days since the Senate passed a budget. That’s 7.25 school years’ worth of attendance since the Senate did that particular legal duty.
Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has shown no indication he will change this pattern of behavior even as the last chance for a formal budget slips away. Instead, Reid is playing politics, and as Huffington Post reported yesterday, the consequences of those political games were seen in a stock market drop at the end of the day.
Every day, week, month, and year, American families must balance their budgets or go bankrupt. The government probably won’t officially do that, since more money can always be printed (at the risk of high inflation), but the consequences of not having a budget will be seen as the debt grows and the American economy continues its stagnant growth.
Leader Reid, it’s long past time that you were worthy of your title. Tea Party Patriots is making one final plea on behalf of millions of activists across the country that you do your job, for the sake of the country. Patriots may not like the House’s budget, but at least the House is on record for its budgetary priorities. The President’s budget may be chock full of dishonest calculations, but at least his priorities can be discussed and debated.
It appears your priorities, Leader Reid, are to play partisan games, regardless of the national consequences.
i think its time you Mr. Reed to do your job and get off your high horse. and do something about your debt that congress got us into this mess,along with the person you call president .quit putting the blame on others that have nothing to do with it the last 4 years, and put the blame on you and your other liberal friends.
Everyone should recognize what the actual plan is the Democrats are putting into effect. Their intention is to ultimately have the government control everything. Just like the Democrats’ subprime housing mortgage underwriting program after two years of oversight by the Democrats causing the economic collapse, and then somehow the general population was duped into believing it was Bush’s fault, they plan for a government catastrophe and using that as an excuse for them to seize control of the economy to “save” the government.
Part of this plan is to have unregulated spending. To have unregulated spending, you first have to eliminate anything like a budget. Then, someone like Geithner recommends eliminating any limit to the debt.
It shouold now be crystal clear that the Democrats are Marxist communists. Their plan for revenue is taken almost verbatim from Das Kapital. They plan to tax existing assets, in effect to seize private property. Well, there’s only a finite amount of private property to seize. When the government has seized it all, there is no more source of revenue. At the same time, their plan is to perpetually increase the debt.
It’s obvious this plan will cause a catastrophe. When the catastrophe happens, the Democrats plan to use that as justification for the government to take control of everything.
We need very strong leadership in Congress. Boehner has been abysmally weak. Paul Ryan should be the next Speaker of the House.
I want to clear something up. It is not the job of the Senate to come up with a budget. That is the responsiblity of the House of Representatives. The function of the Senate is to either “propose or concur” with the budget the house sets. Here is the actual line from the Constitution. Article 1 section 7 paragraph 1. “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”
Having cleared that up, Senate Majority Leader Reid is still guilty of not doing his job by leading the Senate to either propose or concur.
Brandon, raising revenue is not the same as planning how to spend the revenue.
Congress has passed laws controlling the budget process.
basically, the President is supposed to submit a proposed budget to both Houses of Congress, which then consider the Presidents proposal in committees, after which they are submitted to the floor of the House and Senate for votes. If the House and Senate versions differ, they go through the usual reconciliation process. When they get a budget they both agree on and pass, it goes to the President for his signature or veto.
What has been happening is that the Senate has not brought a budget out of committee for a vote on the floor, and that can be laid at the feet of the Party that controls the Senate.
The only budget that originated in accordance with the Constitution came from Paul Ryan.
We need to change leadership in Congress. The Republican leadership has been woefully weak and selling us out to the Democrats.
Paul Ryan should be the next Speaker of the House.
We need to find a Tea Party Conservative in Nevada to run against Reid.
We need to put the people who rig the election for Reid in prison.
Benjamin:
Apparently, you aren’t a Nevadan! Here’s the “REST” of the story.
In 2010, the Navada Republicans, within a CLOSED Primary structure, was controlled by the Tea Party. In their infinite wisdom, they nominated Sharon Angle to go against Harry Reid. At a time when ANY reasonably intelligent could have (and should have) beaten Harry Reid, they nominated a radical, seemingly inarticulate and unintelligent, but committed Tea Party candidate.
Well, they got exactly what they asked for – that being an unelectable representative – and, as a result, handed Reid another 6 years. Now is not the time to start looking for a Tea Party Conservative in Nevada. They had their chance and blew it!!!! We have to wait another 4 years to have another chance and, by then, Reid will probably retire.
The Senate should have, and could have, been under Republican control since 2010 but for the stupidity of the Tea Party (in Nevada, New jersey, Alaska among other places. This is a prime example of what uncompromising political emotionalism will get you! The Tea Party needs to realize that to change the game, they must first be in the game and the only way to get in the game is to moderate their positions so as to approach the problem long term rather than advocate radical change immediately. But then, if the Tea Party used intellect rather than emotionalism, they would have control of the Senate right now!!!
Apparently you pretend to be unaware of SEIU’s efforts in the election.
Please include all related facts when you post a sequence of events.
Thank you.
DBWriter:
I don’t PRETEND anything. I live in Las Vegas and followed the race closely all year.
The fact is that the Reid “machine” is a very known quantity here in Nevada. Everyone KNEW that the unions would be out in full force in support of Reid. Because it was a known commodity, the Republicans (and by proxy, the Tea Party) knew what was coming and didn’t take appropriate action to defeat it. Using a football analogy, if I am playing a team that relies on its run game exclusively, it’s my responsibility to prepare to defend against the run. If I subsequently get beat as a result of that run game, the reason I got beat wasn’t because they did so good, it is because I didn’t do what was necessary (stop the run) to win.
It seems to me you have a choice between two alternatives. First, you can use intellect to determine the parameters of a race and take appropriate action to be competitive and win. That win puts you in the game and yo can effect the change you desire. Second, you can continue to emotionalize the situation and stick to your principled guns. The end result is that you will find yourself venting your frustrations on some obscure web sight while the country is transformed into the image of the progressives. The choice is yours to make! I, personally, don’t find futility to be very gratifying.
No matter what choice is made individually or collectively, historical data and simple political science indicates the TP will have a marginally larger impact in 2014 than they did in 2012. All the TP has to do is not blow this opportunity as it did in 2012 and 2008!
Perhaps, when you write a description about how Harry Reid managed to get elected again, you should include the single most important reason in your post, and not have to be reminded of it. For some reason, you intentionally chose to pretend it didn’t happen.
Thank you for giving this description. Without that, Harry Reid loses the election.
“parameters of race” ???
What the hell are you talking about?
This is what the TEA Party is interested in:
Do you work for a living?
Do you take care of your family?
Do you pay your fair share of the taxes to the government?
… and, if you are an elected official, will you abide by the oath and uphold the Constitution.
I don’t see any goddam thing about anything like “parameters of race”, and I have never seen in in the TEA Party.
The first posts I read by you was filled with defeatism. Now, you’re talking about race.
You are clearly disconnected from the TEA Party.
Reader, every time I read one of your little rants, which are devoid of actual content, I just substitute “progressives” wherever you say Tea Party.
Then what you say makes sense!
Sorry, Joe. I re-read the post. “parameters OF a race”
I guess I’m just to used to seeing the obviously false accusations of racism.
Please accept my appology for this.
DBWriter:
Apology accepted!
I have read your posts on various topics. Respectfully, you seem to operate from an emotional, reactive prospective. It is my experience with that approach that it fails to win an argument much more frequently than it tends to carry an argument. My interpretation of your comments, (I could be wrong, but they are my impressions) is that you have a consistent tendency to irrational thoughts and entrenched conclusions regardless of where the facts may lead you.
It is also my exprience that any dialogue with a person like you would be futile. You are so entrenched in your opinion that you refuse to allow facts to interfere with your predetermined conclusion. Additionally, you seem to have no tolerance for people of differing views.
While I have no doubt you first reaction to this message will be to be emotionally enraged and respond with a hostile response, please save your efforts. A response is neither desired nor expected. Sir, you can count on the fact I will not comment on your posts again!
The survival of the Constitution, thus the United States, is an emotional issue with me.
However, I post actual facts of history. Emotion cannot bias historic fact. A fact is a fact.
Perhaps if Congress became emotional about the government adhering to the Constitution and adopting fiscal sanity, as opposed to the obvious insanity consuming our government today, we wouldn’t be on the verge of fiscal collapse. … and fiscal collapse means the collapse of everything.
Congress needs to stop living in a fantasy world where money grows on trees. There is only a finite amount of money. The economy doesn’t generate an infinite amount of money. Congress needs to count the money available to spend, and choose what is necessary to spend that finite amount of money on.
So far, there has not been a leader in Congress that has promoted that solution.
We need new leadership. We need leadership that has a grasp on reality. Paul Ryan should be the next Speaker of the House.
Joe, if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
And, just because I don’t buy into your defeatism and misinformation campaign doesn’t mean I don’t read and digest your prose.
If you want to engage in a discussion with informed people, you should not try to ignore what is widely known and infer an alternate set of facts minus the inconvenient truths.
Your post about the reason the TEA Party lost to Harry Reid is an excellent example. In your first post you completely ignored the role of SEIU. Without SEIU, Reid loses the election to a very mediocre candidate. Not a bad candidate, just not a powerful politician.
You are guilty of what the TEA Party accuses the so-called “progressives” of routinely, ignoring facts that aren’t consistent with the intended propaganda.
As it applies to you, a quote from Saul Alinsky comes to mind:
“”An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth — truth to him is relative and changing.”
To us, truth isn’t relative and changing. Truth is merely and simply a statement of fact.
It is time to enact term limits on Congress. Why should they be allowed to basically serve for life when the President is limited to two elected terms? Members of Congress get elected and then over time start representing lobbyists and special interest groups instead of the constituents who elected them in the first place. They get to the point that the only time they think of their constituents is when it comes to be election time. Go to http:/wh.gov/XDVe and read and sign the petition. Wake up America before it is too late. Raise your voices and be heard. We can do this and retake control of Congress and our government but we need to be united and stand up to the long term oppressors we currently have in Washington. Once again the website is http://wh.gov/XDVe for the petition.
Blue, what are you talking about? My comment had absolutely nothing to do with what you stated in your reply.
Blue is as stupid as a rock. I’ve seen nothing come blue that would be deemed intelligent.
As for term limits for those in congress, I agree.that would solve many problems currently in the Gov. Aslo need to reduce their pay. They need only to be paid for the days they are in cession.
As for being emotional about this topic of the constitution and our Gov, my I remind you all that our Founding Fathers were very emotionally tied to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. It was their liberty that was at stake and consequently so is ours. May I also remind you that for every troop that dies in the field to protect and preserve the Constitution it is an emotional event. May I remind you fellas that some one has to die in order to secure your freedoms. Freedom never comes without a price and it is a very expensive price. I have put dead troops on a airplane to send them home to their loved ones. With each Casket I put on those planes were and emotional experience. So defending the Constitution and preserving the Gov the way the Founding Fathers established it is and does become emotional.
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Let’s take a look at your response….
If someone wrote something in a previous human generation, then its relavence dies when they die? Its use dies when they die?
If what you are using as justification is true, then the notion of history is ludicrous when considered important to education. Anything from a person who does not live forever is insignificant.
If you really believe this, then why do the Democrats who ludicrously call themselves “progressives” spend so much effort to rewrite history with lies, and pretend actual events (inconvenient facts) didn’t happen?
Your actions are not consistent with what comes out of your mouth. We call people like that liars.
Marxism is alive and being put into practice today. It has been a significant element in the history of civilization long after Marx died. If you recall recent world history, the most significant event of the previous century was the Cold War, and global war between Marxist communism and capitalism.
I know the Democrats are very unhappy that their side lost the Cold War. Get over it. You still get to enjoy the living standard created by capitalism, and you don’t have to practice what you preach and live in an impoverished environment that existed, and still exists, for all nations that allowed Marxist communism to infect their government.
It’s said so often because it’s seen so often.
(cinicism)
Well, who’s going to do the “investigating”? Eric Holder? The person who runs guns for the Mexican drug cartels and uses his position to prevent US law from being enforced?
You can bet the mentality running our government today will “investigate” anyone with an opposing opinion. Just look at what the government did to “Joe the Plumber” after all he did was ask a simple question and Obama gave a stupid answer.
The Democrats have no different mentality than the people who surrounded every dictator that has ever existed. To them, if any opposing voice is heard, then they have not secured enough power yet.
Perhaps your animosity toward the TEA Party stems from some other accusation.
You seem to accuse your adversary of being a racist routinely, with no justification. That indicates to me that there is a very prominent racial undertone to your logic, i.e. you are a racist.
In truth, every normal human is a racist. They feel most comfortable in the environment most akin to them. The difference is, most humans are not vengeful or hateful. Only a vengeful, hateful racist would say something like “get your revenge when you vote.”
Revenge for what?