Paul Ryan

[Clinton Huxley]

I'm probably being dense but if a budget is not approved, how does each govt dept know how much it has to spend?

[Coito ergo sum]

Ad hoc mechanisms to approve spending.

I.e. -- on the sly.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm probably being dense but if a budget is not approved, how does each govt dept know how much it has to spend?

Continuing resolutions, IIRC.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ad hoc mechanisms to approve spending.

I.e. -- on the sly.

Do you actually break out in hives when the word "spending" is used?

[Clinton Huxley]

Sounds bonkers.

[Coito ergo sum]

Ever make an omelet under fire, C.E.S.?

LOL - the gold medal is awarded to Gawdzilla in the Strained Metaphor competition:

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I take it you like your prunes strained.

[Coito ergo sum]

Ad hoc mechanisms to approve spending.

I.e. -- on the sly.

Do you actually break out in hives when the word "spending" is used?

When they spend like drunken sailors on shore leave, yes.

Giving money and power to the Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager.

[Coito ergo sum]

Sounds bonkers.

It is, but it avoids scrutiny.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ad hoc mechanisms to approve spending.

I.e. -- on the sly.

Do you actually break out in hives when the word "spending" is used?

When they spend like drunken sailors on shore leave, yes.

Giving money and power to the Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager.

And Republicans hate spending on anything that doesn't directly affect themselves. And then they'd prefer it be other peoples' money.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Sounds bonkers.

It is, but it avoids scrutiny.

I seriously believe you have a touch of paranoia, C.E.S.

[Coito ergo sum]

Ad hoc mechanisms to approve spending.

I.e. -- on the sly.

Do you actually break out in hives when the word "spending" is used?

When they spend like drunken sailors on shore leave, yes.

Giving money and power to the Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager.

And Republicans hate spending on anything that doesn't directly affect themselves. And then they'd prefer it be other peoples' money.

Rock solid justification for not passing a budget for several years, and even rejecting -- two years in a row -- the budget proposed by the leader of their own Party, the President of the United States.

[Coito ergo sum]

Sounds bonkers.

It is, but it avoids scrutiny.

I seriously believe you have a touch of paranoia, C.E.S.

Feel free to propose a reasonable explanation for not passing a budget, then. I'm sure there are other possibilities.

However, "because Republicans won't let them," or just in general "The Rethugnicans [or Repukes or Repugnicans or whatever juvenile namecalling is desired] are jerky McJerkJerks...." ought to be reserved for last resort.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You'd like that, wouldn't you. Less feelings of responsibility for fucking up the country. Sorry, the blame is obvious, live with it. Obstructionist tactics to make the current administration look bad while hurting the US as a whole is a very Republican system.

[Coito ergo sum]

You'd like that, wouldn't you. Less feelings of responsibility for fucking up the country. Sorry, the blame is obvious, live with it. Obstructionist tactics to make the current administration look bad while hurting the US as a whole is a very Republican system.

Rock solid rationale for not passing a budget....

How can the budget be Republican obstructionism, since the Dems all voted against it, including their own President's budget.

They did pass one in 2009, though.... that was a misstatement of mine above, sorry. You remember that? When the Democrats controlled the House and the Senate, and Bush proposed a budget that was a 3% increase over the previous year, but Pelosi/Reid in the House and Senate change the 2009 budget to make it a 17.9% increase in spending over the previous year.



Republican obstructionism, my foot.