Why I Don't Support A Continuing Budget Resolution

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This post is based on two articles--one from the Daily Caller yesterday and one from ABC News yesterday.

The Daily Caller reports that the new Continuing Resolution does not include any of the riders that were included in the first Continuing Resolution.  These were the riders that defunded such organizations as Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio, and such programs as Obamacare and EPA climate change. 

The Democrat strategy in this debate is to stall the budget debate long enough so that the Continuing Resolution, raising the debt ceiling, and the 2012 budget are all lumped together.  The idea is that doing that would decrease any leverage or political advantage the Republicans may have if all three items are debated separately.

ABC News notes:

"Rep. Steve King is lobbying his colleagues to take their fight against President Obama's health care law to a new level: He wants to cut off funding for the law as a condition for keeping other government funds in place.

""We have a leverage point, and it is the funding for the government for the balance of the fiscal year 2011," King, R-Iowa, told us today on ABC's "Top Line." "This is the place to pitch the fight."

"If such a stance brings about a partial government shutdown, it would be Democrats' fault, King said: "If we shut off the funding to implement Obamacare and the Senate or the president refuses to go along with it, that is their decision, not ours.""

The thing to keep in mind here is the reason why this debate is happening.  As I have previously reported in a rightwinggranny article of March 13th:

At the beginning of January 2010, the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the Presidency.  In the Senate, after the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, there were 57 Democrats (including Independents who caucused with the Democrats) and 41 Republicans.  In the House of Representatives there were 256 Democrats and 178 Republicans.  The U. S. Government's fiscal year begins on October 1 and ends on September 30.  Congress is expected to pass a budget bill before the start of the fiscal year.  Budget bills are constitutionally required to begin in the House of Representatives.  The failure to pass a budget for 2011 falls squarely on the shoulders of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the House of Representatives--they simply did not do their job--they funded the government through temporary measures.  Now they are screaming because the Republicans are introducing spending cuts into those temporary measures.  The President is screaming at Congress and blaming the Republicans because his Democrat party failed to pass a budget while they held the majority.

The time for political posturing is over.  We are in the middle of a fiscal crisis that will get worse if we do not seriously cut government spending.  Please follow this link to Paul Ryan's Budget Presentation.  There you will see charts and graphs that explain exactly what our current situation is.  It's time to stop playing politics and seriously cut the budget.

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