GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions

[Javaman]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/10/gop-may-skip-budget-kneecapping-2018-ambitions-334946

GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions
Lacking the votes and fearing political blowback, Republicans are unlikely to deploy powerful budget procedures to enact their agenda.

Republican leaders are considering skipping passage of a GOP budget this year — a blow to the party’s weakened fiscal hawks that would squash all 2018 efforts to revamp entitlements or repeal Obamacare.

White House and Hill GOP leaders discussed the possibility of foregoing the painful budget process during last weekend’s Camp David legislative summit, according to four sources familiar with the talks. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has argued that he cannot pass controversial deficit-reduction legislation using powerful budget procedures with his new 51-vote majority — and wasn’t even sure he could find the votes for a fiscal blueprint in the first place.

Abandoning the budget, however, would be an embarrassment for Republicans, who for years railed against Democrats when they avoided one of the most basic responsibilities of Congress.

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1. as staggeringly incompetent as i know them to be, i'm somehow continually surprised

these people control all branches of government and can't even past a budget resolution -- which isn't even a law, just a guideline for other laws!

it's the key to the whole "reconciliation" nonsense that lets them avoid a filibuster.

they're so screwed-up incompetent that they can't even do a basic step that lets them avoid the extra complexity of having to work with democrats.


what's really mind-boggling is how republicans can still be fine with all this.

i can't understand why a right-wing nut job wouldn't be fed up with how inept these clowns are.

yet people still insist on supporting donnie and the gang.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Why should they?

When's the last time they actually passed one? How many out of the past 10 years?

[Kirk Lover]

3. Yeah I would like to hear all about what this dirtbag Ryan has in mind, please do let the

voters know.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Politico..Democrats avoided doing a budget?? When was the author born, last year? Fuck you.