nessus2 wrote:
Just because the House has written a budget doesn't mean they get to have it all their own way.

I believe that is why the words on that "old piece of vellum" insist on Senate and Executive approval.

The president has also submitted a budget each of the last four years.

This is a negotiation, and I know that there is no just power to negotiate mentioned in the "old piece of vellum" but I think the Framers would forgive us.
I never suggested that the House budget means this is the way it must be, anymore than I would accept that the budget the president submitted means that is how things must be. 

The point, in a split Congress, is both the House and the Senate writing and passing budgets is each party lays out its budget priorities and the compromise is then hammered out during reconciliation of the two bills. The resultant compromise then has to be passed by both houses before being sent to the president for executive approval.

The Democratic Senate, refusing to write, pass and submit a budget for reconciliation has short-circuited this process. 

I am just sick and tired of smug Democrats complaining the Repubicans won't give any serious details for ideas on how to solve the country's fiscal woes when it is exactly the opposite in the Congress.


"Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with." -- Milton Friedman