Please read the entire article before replying. I realize that will be hard for the liberals, but it should be required reading for all of us.
The American Spectator : Extremely Extreme Extremists
Democrats and their media allies have spent the past week labeling Republicans anarchists, fanatics, radicals, and terrorists who are wholly to blame for the situation that we are told will soon lead to a government shutdown. And if all you know about this situation is what you get from the media, you might actually believe that this is a crisis created by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his fellow conservatives who sought to use the vote on a short-term spending bill as a means of preventing implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
Heres a simple question: Why are we currently funding the federal government through a series of short-term measures known as continuing resolutions?
The answer is that the budgeting process has completely broken down in recent years, and the two men most responsible for that breakdown are President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. For three consecutive years 2010, 2011, and 2012 the Democrat-controlled Senate did not pass a budget bill because Reid knew that it would be a political liability to do so. Passing a budget that detailed the Democrats plans for spending and revenue as official policy would have exposed the something for nothing swindle that Reid and his colleagues are perpetrating on the American people. Republican challengers campaigning against Democrat senators could have cited their votes for the budget bill, saying that the incumbent voted for this, that, or the other unpopular component of the measure.
....read more at the link.
The American Spectator : Extremely Extreme Extremists
Democrats and their media allies have spent the past week labeling Republicans anarchists, fanatics, radicals, and terrorists who are wholly to blame for the situation that we are told will soon lead to a government shutdown. And if all you know about this situation is what you get from the media, you might actually believe that this is a crisis created by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his fellow conservatives who sought to use the vote on a short-term spending bill as a means of preventing implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
Heres a simple question: Why are we currently funding the federal government through a series of short-term measures known as continuing resolutions?
The answer is that the budgeting process has completely broken down in recent years, and the two men most responsible for that breakdown are President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. For three consecutive years 2010, 2011, and 2012 the Democrat-controlled Senate did not pass a budget bill because Reid knew that it would be a political liability to do so. Passing a budget that detailed the Democrats plans for spending and revenue as official policy would have exposed the something for nothing swindle that Reid and his colleagues are perpetrating on the American people. Republican challengers campaigning against Democrat senators could have cited their votes for the budget bill, saying that the incumbent voted for this, that, or the other unpopular component of the measure.
....read more at the link.