{"id":3343,"date":"2012-05-16T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:29:35","slug":"senate-democrats-still-shirking-their-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/senate-democrats-still-shirking-their-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats still shirking their duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/do-nothing-democrats\/\">Andrew Stiles writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Senate Democrats are poised to continue their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/a-mournful-milestone\/\">impressive streak of budgetary negligence<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday by unanimously rejecting as many as five different budgets, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/obama-spend-it-now\/\">the one offered by President Obama<\/a>. Republicans, meanwhile, are hoping that voters will pick up on the disturbing trend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Democratic-led Senate has not formally proposed a federal budget resolution in more\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/a-mournful-milestone\/\">than three years<\/a>, and is not expected to offer one Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) and Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) have made explicitly clear that they have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/sacrificial-lamb\/\">no intention of doing so<\/a>\u00a0before the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Not only have the congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrats<\/a> not proposed any budgets in the past three years, they have voted against every budget proposal brought before Congress, including budgets proposed by the leader of their party, our own <em>Dear Leader<\/em>, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that the congressional democrats don&#8217;t want their agenda documented in way that easily\u00a0accessible\u00a0by the American people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Stiles writes: Senate Democrats are poised to continue their\u00a0impressive streak of budgetary negligence\u00a0on Wednesday by unanimously rejecting as many as five different budgets, including\u00a0the one offered by President Obama. Republicans, meanwhile, are hoping that voters will pick up on the disturbing trend. The Democratic-led Senate has not formally proposed a federal budget resolution in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,6,50,52,19],"tags":[140,231,251,262,294,414,584,621,839],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-economy","category-obama-economy-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-one-term-president","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-RV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}