On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since the creation of the Congressional budget process, the House has never > failed to pass a budget and then deemed the non-existent budget as passed. <snip> > > It will be interesting to see how Republicans use this for the upcoming > elections. Already facing a difficult election cycle, it doesn't seem like > this can help one bit.
Interestingly enough, I was just pointed to an analysis of this talking point and it is sort of true. The House has never done a deem and pass on a budget prior to this. However, the Senate has done it 4 times, all under Republican control, most recently in 2006. I can't say that I particularly agree with the way that the House did things, but then again, I haven't really looked into why they did it that way. But I can call bullshit on the "This is unprecedented!" hue and cry from the Republican side. It's weird, I don't believe that I've ever seen a single instance where Republicans have screamed about the Democrats doing something unprecedented where they themselves have not done it first. I'm forced to conclude that Republicans have a better grasp of parliamentary maneuvering than Democrats do as well as no shame. It is just like "Reconciliation is unprecedented!" all over again. Juda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322758 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
