"Facts just have a ruthless way of destroying fantasy. "

Just like your fantasy of the way the world is

What is a fantasy in my world Dux?
Oops, gotcha.

Don't budgetary matters start in the House?

Actually the President is required to submit a budget to the House and Senate because of a 1921 congressional act.
Then the Committee on the Budget in the House and the Senate begin drafting budget resolutions.
The resolutions of each committee is submitted for a vote in their individual chambers.

So you get a House budget and a Senate budget that must be reconciled.

The Senate has not passed a budget in over two years.

After budgets get approved and reconciled the House alone controls appropriations.

The House can refuse to appropriate money for the budget in other words.

Republicans should hammer the fact that Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate reject compromise of any kind, and use the fact that for over two years dating back to the last year of the Bush Administration the Democratic Senate has failed to perform its most basic function, produce a budget.

The blame for the runaway spending in Washington and the budget crisis is squarely on the Democrats and Republicans should mercilessly pound this point home.

Why?

So that a future Senate considers it suicide not to produce a budget, and take total responsibility for its spending and taxation.

Are you serious Tettleton? I am guessing you are one of those folks that gets all their info from Glen Beck and Fox News cause that is the only way i can explain your distorted view of reality.

"Are you serious Tettleton? I am guessing you are one of those folks that gets all their info from Glen Beck and Fox News cause that is the only way i can explain your distorted view of reality. "

How can you say that and still believe yourself? Can you give me any examples of how Fox is so terrible? How about Glenn Beck? Or do you watch too much MSNBC? (joke, still answer the first 3 Qs) Fact is, you have no idea really. Same as me who doesn't watch MSNBC, you don't really watch Fox? Do you? Same as me, you are basing your opinions of Fox and Glenn Beck on tidbits of information instead of an essay that was written without emotion. So I don't criticize MSNBC. but you still criticize Fox and Glenn Beck.

You destroy your credibility when you or anyone else (including me) makes comments like that.

It's troubling how ignorant of basic civics and the duties of the Senate my fellow citizens are.
It is also disturbing that individuals can't differentiate between the direct causes of current economic crisis in the United States, spending and taxation.

It isn't surprising though when you see people with college degrees protesting for jobs instead of protesting that the professors who supposedly taught them didn't teach them how to create a job for themselves, but of course tenured professors have never had any idea whatsoever about how to create jobs. That's why they are isolated in universities. They couldn't cut it in business.

It's also not surprising that many people that don't understand the Senates duties and the fact that runaway spending is entirely the problem at the same ones who blame a bank for defrauding them when they signed their mortgage documents without either reading them or consulting an attorney.

Idiots always self identify, and people who aren't idiots continue to succeed no matter what the economic climate or obstacles.

Such is life.

When I red these lines from one of my favorite columnists it made me feel better.

Our government has the time to worry about school lunch menus in Boise, Idaho, but the Senate hasn't found the time to pass a budget in Washington, D.C., in nearly three years. H.L. Mencken famously wrote that every decent man is ashamed of his government. This one gives you little choice.

David Harsanyi is the author FYI

Franz josef,

I've raised a kids and am waiting on a grand kid.
They all have jobs and homes to live in.
I own my own business.
I own my own home.
I've created jobs for my fellow citizens and get quite a rush of satisfaction every time I sign a paycheck to this day.

I did all this after growing up in poverty in a single-parent family.
I'm convinced that hard work, fiscal sanity, and personal responsibility are the keys to success.

I really like my distorted view of reality.
You on the other hand strike me as a whining, liberal victim in your own mind of some dark, sinister conspiracy that rules the world.

Later dude! Have a great life!

someone is defending Tettleton's Chew, that must be a multi! :)

disclaimer, this is just a joke, not a cheating accusation
sorry draugnar :)