This is what Democrats are up against.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

Sanders would get an all out guffaw.

"For more than four decades, congressional leaders have invited the President's budget director to Capitol Hill to– at the very least– ceremoniously testify about the proposed vision, but this year, Obama's budget director Shaun Donovan was stiffed."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/o

This topic was moved by request. I believe this is a topic for every year and all elections, so long as hardliners are sent to Congress. As is stated in the article, this is a new phenomenon. In the past the opposition would take the proposed budget ceremoniously.