Posted by
Bill Crawford on Friday, July 02, 2010 1:41:27 PM
The Emergency War Supplemental Bill passed the House this week by a 215-210 vote, with no Republican help at all. The Democrats attached an interesting document to it that "deemed as passed" a $1.1 trillion "budget" for next year.
I kid you not. "Deemed as passed". Deemed! For the non-lawyers among you, that means nobody needed to actually vote on it.
And why should they vote on it? The damned budget doesn't exist! This crap, if it passes the Senate, will simply allow them to start spending the money in October for the next fiscal year. They get to spend your money, without any of the responsibility the Constitution attached to it.
Has this ever happened before? No. I thought the Dem Congress in 1993 was stretching things when they gave provisional floor vote power to the reps from Guam, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., desperate as they were in their last days there for votes of any kind.
This Congress has promoted itself to a level of lunacy that boggles my mnid. I don't speak casually there. I am enough of a history buff to know of all the shennigans that surrounded Clay, Webster and Calhoun in the 19th century. And the circus that Tom Reed provoked as Speaker in 1910.
This circus has way more Volkswagens, and more red noses hiding in each one. It seems that they know their Chairmanships are soon to be histoire and they are turning over every crazy rock they can before their great day in the sun ends.
They all are anxious to get the hell out now, and face the hardest campaigns of their careers. When it is all over in November, and the likelihood becomes certainty, wait until the lame duck session before Christmas. You think it's crazy now? You haven't seen anything yet.