Congress has defied the law to approve a federal budget since 2009, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in no hurry to prepare one again, he says.
"There's no need to have a Democratic budget, in my opinion," Reid told the Los Angeles Times. "It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage."
In addition, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told reporters he planned to defer work on a 2012 budget indefinitely.
Of course, the absence of a spending plan doesn't mean Reid and his Democratic pals don't want to keep spending.
They are nearly apoplectic in their desire to raise the debt limit beyond $14.3 trillion so they can keep on spending without a care as to the consequences, accountability or revenues.
Imagine trying to run your business like that.
Imagine trying to run your home like that.
Now imagine trying to run the biggest government in the history of the world like that.
That is the sheer arrogance, incompetence and defiance of the rule of law that we see from the Democratic leadership in the Senate.
The law requires that Congress pass a budget by April 15 of every year. But Harry Reid's Senate hasn't done that since 2009. Even then it was late by two weeks.
Nevertheless, not having a spending plan hasn't stopped the Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress until January of this year from bailing out banks and financial institutions, creating a massive new bureaucracy that would run health care in America, nationalizing automobile companies, etc.
In fact, it really makes it easier to do whatever you want to do without a written plan, doesn't it?
If ever there were an argument in favor of freezing borrowing by Washington, this is it.
What Reid and company are trying to do represents the biggest scam in history – to spend without a plan, without accountability, without public oversight, without answering to the law, without question or debate.
It's a complete reinvention of government.
Why concern yourself with tax revenues if you've got a limitless credit card?
Why concern yourself with constitutional limits on power if you have nothing but contempt for the rule of law?
Why concern yourself with fiscal propriety if your goal is more and more government control over every aspect of American life?
Why worry about debt when it will have to be dealt with long after you're dead and gone?
Why worry about the sustainability of such policies when the government is too big to fail?
Do you get what's going on here?
Once upon a time in America, we heard vigorous debates about tax increases and borrowing. Reid and Obama and company have figured out a way to avoid all that messiness. It's called just keep spending. Sooner or later, as the economic nightmare they are creating becomes too big to ignore, then and only then Americans will be handed the bill.
They are spending America into the poor house of socialism. They're doing it right out in the open – and they are telling you what they are doing.
I see only one possible solution to this crisis: that is to persuade at least 218 Republicans in the House of Representatives to just say no to any more borrowing.
We can't wait for 2012 for this. It won't come soon enough. There won't be enough of America left in 2012 to salvage. This is why we sent Republicans to take over the House. They have one thing they can do to save the country this year – and that's to stop the debt limit from being raised. They don't need any help to do this. It just takes 218 Republican votes of a total of 241.
So now is the time to remind them of their responsibility to end this kind of insanity.
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