Posted by
Bill Crawford on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:16:12 PM
Steny Hoyer presaged Speaker Pelosi's announcement next week that there is no budget resolution coming for next year. They are simply going to pass continuances until after the elections. If the Republicans take the House back in November, they will gleefully punt the problem over to them.
In the same speech, Hoyer mused about the middle class tax increases that would be needed to get things back into order.
This is irresponsible. No, that's not ripe enough. This is nuts.
They do not have a plan B in case floating this news creates a financial s**tstorm. They simply can't get their own caucus to get together enough to structure anything. They have the largest majority of any party since 1993, and they can't muster even 180 votes, much less a majority. They are left with punting the deficits to Obama's blue ribbon commission, after the elections.
These people have to go. Those of you that voted them in, I ask you, what have you gotten? Is the Iraq war over? Has Guantanamo Bay closed? Has the Patriot Act been rescinded? Has immigration reform passed?
Oh, and one other (I have to): are we making any progress in the Gulf? Hell, folks, this is the party that believes in the power of government! They are becoming a chapter in a conservative textbook.
Yes, we can! The question has become: can what?