Senate Passes GOP Budget: Let The Obamacare Battles Begin
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans muscled a balanced-budget plan through the Senate early Friday, positioning Congress for months of battling President Barack Obama over the GOP's goals of slicing spending and dismantling his health care law.
Working into Friday's pre-dawn hours, senators approved the blueprint by a near party-line 52-46 vote, endorsing a measure that closely follows one the House passed Wednesday. Both budgets embody a conservative vision of shrinking projected federal deficits by more than $5 trillion over the coming decade, mostly by cutting health care and other benefit programs and without raising taxes.
The Senate was beginning a spring recess after approving the measure, leaving Congress' two GOP-run chambers to negotiate a compromise budget in mid-April. The legislation is a non-binding blueprint that does not require Obama's signature but lays the groundwork for future bills that seem destined for veto fights with the president.
"Republicans have shown that the Senate is under new management and delivering on the change and responsible government the American people expect," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Democrats viewed the document differently, saying it relied on gimmickry and touted the wrong priorities.
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the poor, poorer and let's get rid of those few pesky middle classers that keep "taking" while we're at it. Yeah! That's the ticket that repubthugs voted for. Dumbasses will be affected also, they are just too blind with unreasoning foxsnooze generated hate to realize it. A lot of them will go down with us.
I see posts suggesting possible REASONS for why others who didn't vote, didn't vote. For example, there was a post guessing that Hispanics didn't turn out for the candidate b/c she was bad on immigration, but not a post by a Hispanic DUer saying he or she personally was one of them.
I vaguely recall somebody a couple of years ago saying they were going to stay home from the polls on purpose, but I don't recall if they were being serious or deliberately provocative. I've seen a lot of anger for how conservative Dem candidates have become, and anger at the Dem party's explicit mocking of liberals ("Where else are they going to go?"
. But I don't see a lot of posts on DU saying they stayed home because there was nothing to vote for.
