“Demonpass” the US Budget? The temporary Majority party exceeds even itself in arrogance

I could type better if I could just scrape my jaw off the keyboard.

Via Connie Hair at Human Events;

Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that “deemed as passed” a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the “deeming” document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

Never before — since the creation of the Congressional budget process — has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.
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I…is “flummoxed” still a widely used word?

I gotta go tow a car….

Unbelievable.

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