Budgets Approved, With No G.O.P. Votes

[spanone]

WASHINGTON — The House and Senate approved budgets of about $3.5 trillion for the government on Thursday with no Republican support, a sign of deep partisan tensions likely to color Congressional efforts to enact major policy initiatives sought by President Obama.

On the heels of House approval of its spending plan for 2010, the Senate voted 55 to 43 shortly before midnight to adopt a similar budget after a day spent laboring over politically tinged amendments that did little to change a fiscal blueprint generally in keeping with Mr. Obama’s ambitious agenda.

Democrats said the two budgets, which will have to be reconciled after a two-week Congressional recess, cleared the way for health care, energy and education overhauls pushed by the new president. The Democrats said the budgets reversed what they portrayed as the failed economic approach of the Bush administration and Republican-led Congresses.

“This responsible budget will start cleaning up the mistakes of the past and make critical investments in our future,” Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada and the majority leader, said.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said Democrats would like to find consensus with Republicans, but not at the expense of the infusion of federal money that the majority calls crucial in a time of economic distress.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/politics/03budget.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[malaise]

1. I read this early this morning

Amazing how little coverage this is receiving.
What ever happened to the April Fool's alternative? :rofl:

[spanone]

2. this is how we should pass all legislation....frack 'em

[T Wolf]

3. How many times will the Dems in Congress (and the WH) make the same mistake of giving

in to the rethugs, weakening any legislation they try to pass, and STILL get NO repuke votes?

Will they ever learn?

[gratuitous]

4. Yep, undo all the compromise in the reconciliation

And when the usual yammering starts, just say, "Look, you didn't vote for the budget when we put in your little amendments. So you lose them. Go ahead and vote against it again, and you can explain to your constituents how you lost your pet budget projects by being a stubborn jerk. You'll have another chance next year, and we'll see if you learned any lessons."

[JohnnyBoots]

5. You're either with us, or against us. It is as simple as that. Why do we need to put a GOP

anchor around our necks when we are trying to clean up their mistakes in the first place. You win the election, you govern as you like.

[T Wolf]

6. Democrats don't do that - either because they are cowards or they actually do support the

policies of the thugs.

There is no choice "C."

[JohnnyBoots]

9. It is an even mix of both. In 20 years the GOP will be no more. The Democratic Party

will be the conservative pro-business party and most of us will be off somewhere else or ex-pats. At least if the big money and DLC/Blue Dogs get their way. Sad, but true.

[Beetwasher]

7. Where Do You See That They Did That This Time???

:shrug:

I don't see any concessions to Repubs in this budget.

[Winterblues]

8. Almost exactly how Clinton's Budget was passed.

And almost exactly the same things were said about it. america went on to experience the "Greatest Economic Expansion in History" and after Bush*'s first budget America experienced the Greatest economic turn around in history..America has an extremely short memory span. It always amazes me how Republicans are never called on their bullshit. They have been proved wrong on virtually every single issue yet they keep at it and the MSM not only lets them but enables them..