The Senate on Friday rejected a House-passed measure to keep the government funded past Sept. 30, signaling that Senate Democrats are ready for an eleventh-hour fight with House Republicans over billions of dollars in disaster aid in the bill.
By a vote of 59 to 36, the Senate tabled the $1.043 trillion resolution to funding the government from Oct. 1 through Nov. 18. Congress has to send some kind of temporary funding measure to the president’s desk by Sept. 30 or the government will shut down.
Seems Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can’t stomach the notion of offsetting the costs of disaster relief, thus showing an incredible obliviousness to the federal government’s burgeoning budget deficits.
He’d rather see the government shut down than hold the line on spending at a time of record deficits. Guess he prefers pandering to Democratic special interests to acting in the national interest.
Senate Democrats just want this Congress to fail.
The RINO blooded Republicans had best start playing hardball on this drive to paint the Congress as gridlocked by recalcitrant TEA Party extremists.
Reid and company are counting on the media to blame the Republicans for keeping the FEMA checks from being written. The fact is that the Democrats insist on not cutting the emergency appropriations from spending cuts elsewhere. Meanwhile, Obama is sitting on a mountain of unspent TARP and Stimulus money.
Yes, they are trying to play chicken with the Republicans; they blinked last time.
At the end of the day, either Americans will learn to see through the Left’s destructive nonsense and vote the bastards out… or, Americans won’t.
It’s up to all of us… although I *hope* I will be able to create a halfway decent life, in either kind of world. (There, see, yet again Obama has brought *hope*.)
“Just to be the pill in all this jam, what exactly did any of you do to make this fiasco possible? Don’t you think some expression of gratitude to us liberal lefties is in order for running up these horrendus debts and not wanting to be the adults in the room?” – Counterfail.
Somebody needs to do a tally of how many times the regime denied requests for emergency funding. Even Fast Eddy Rendell was turned down.
Perhaps the question should be phrased “why did the Republican controlled House approve a ridiculous piece of legislation that had no chance of passing”?
Kevin,
One could ask the same of 0-97bama and his bill. I find your lack of condemnation disturbing.
For the adults reading the blog, normally the way it works is the house proposes a bill, the senate, if it doesn’t approve the bill in whole, passes their own version and it goes to compromise.
Note which step is lacking in this process.