Some guy at the Corner:
The Senate just finished voting on the Paul Ryan/House Republican budget resolution, as well as the budget put forward by President Obama in February. Both, as expected, were voted down, but only Ryan’s received any votes.
Indeed, the Obama budget failed by the astounding final count of 0 to 97. Not even Bernie Sanders (S., Vt.) could bring himself to support the president’s plan, raising the question, as one observer in the Senate gallery put it: “Are Democrats actually for anything?”
The Ryan budget, on the other hand, was voted down 40 to 57, with five Republicans — Sens. Brown, Collins, Murkowski, Paul and Snowe — voting ‘no,’ along with every Democrat.
Votes on the budget proposals put forward by Sens. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and Rand Paul (R., Ky.) are expected shortly.
UPDATE: The Toomey budget also fails — but gets more votes that Ryan’s — 42 to 55. Sens. Murkowski and Paul are the two who switched their votes.
Paul’s budget fails as well, 7 to 90, but still gets more votes than Obama’s. Sens. Coburn, DeMint, Hatch (!), Lee, Paul, Vitter and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (!!) voted ‘yes.’
UPDATE II: The Senate Democratic budget f… oh wait, nevermind.
Final score: Republican budgets 89, Democratic “budgets” 0
General Stuck
they are for not ending medicare. And that is all you need to know wingnut.
General Stuck
Today was chicken fucking day in the US Senate. There are no wrong answers and all the questions are trick ones. Last Senator left bloviating wins, and loses.
Fred
Bahahaha….gotta luv wingnut math!
BGinCHI
Shorter Corner douche:
Why won’t Dems commit political suicide with us?
Ash Can
Well, OF COURSE the Corner is going to say something like this. The Corner is AN ASS. Asses produce shit.
ErikdaRed
But why were there no votes at all for the Prez’s plan?? I’m sure there’s more to this than what a wingnut at America’s Shittiest Website has to say, but what??
Svensker
Glad you got your title dusted and polished there, Sarah P&T. :)
MikeJ
@ErikdaRed: There was no upside in voting for somethign that was never going to pass anyway, and all it would do is paint a target on you with specific things to complain about.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ErikdaRed:
Fred
@Ash Can: That is like that epic speech from “Team America”!
“Sometimes dicks fuck assholes and wind up covered in shit”
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Svensker:
Friends don’t let friends post when drunk.
ErikdaRed
Aaah, thanx, Mike and Sarah.
:)
Hill Dweller
The stupid, it burns.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ErikdaRed:
Biden has been working in committee to come up with a new Democrat budget plan that might actually pass, so the February budget isn’t on the table anymore, unless it’s as part of Republican shenanigans like today.
Lev
I’m kind of surprised that Mark Kirk voted for Ryan’s horseshit. He’s allegedly a moderate, certainly from a blue state. Maybe he figures that he’s only getting one term before the Dems run someone whose bank didn’t just get investigated for fraud, someone who can properly flay his nursery school teacher-impersonating ass, and figures he might as well indulge the wingnuts that landed him there.
Elisabeth
@ErikdaRed:
Thanks for asking because I didn’t understand, either.
The Tragically Flip
Their creative idiocy still manages to astound me.
PeakVT
Not even Bernie Sanders (S., Vt.) could bring himself to support the president’s plan, raising the question, as one observer in the Senate gallery put it: “Are Democrats actually for anything?”
I’ll be charitable and say this sentence was a poor attempt at comedy.
Nutella
@Lev:
Kirk’s not too bright.
Explains a lot of things.
opie_jeanne
@Sarah Proud and Tall: Thanks Sarah. I am just now catching up on today’s news and hadn’t heard that the Obama budget was even brought up.
handy
K-Lo’s House of Crazy
strikes backshoots self in foot again....now I try to be amused
You could say that Democrats are the real conservatives on this issue.
Bobby Thomson
@Lev:
Yeah, well, he isn’t moderate. Duh.
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
DEMOCRATIC
Can someone explain how a vote on an even more extreme bill was supposed to shelter Republican senators from blowback?
Jay C
Mr. Stiles’ post was lame even by the blatantly abysmal standards of NRO. Does he not realize that when a Senate vote – especially on something like a national budget – fails by an 0-97 margin, that this just might not be a normal bit of legislation, and that something else (like, maybe, a semi-symbolic vote which is basically political posturing) just might be going on?
But then again, consider the source: “abysmal” and “lame” are usually the adjectives of choice….
Ken
By my count, that’s three Republican budgets rejected by the Senate, and (at most) one Democratic budget.
@Bobby Thomson:
It’s similar to the logic that says Michelle Bachmann or Herman Cain or Paul Ryan should run for President, since that way all the other Republican candidates will look more statesmanlike, or at least more sane. It’s an excellent plan, flawed only in that it requires other Republican candidates.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Bobby Thomson:
I’ve been a Republican for my entire life, dear. Using “Democrat” is better than calling them “Bastards” like most of my friends do.
Bulworth
@General Stuck: I’m pretty sure just a year ago we Democrats were for universal health insurance coverage, and we passed a bill to do that. So, yeah, we are for stuff like good health care for everybody.
inthewoods
@ErikdaRed: They voted it down because the budget has been superseded by a new budget (forthcoming) – from the WSJ:
“The Senate followed that up by rejecting President Obama’s budget in a 97-0 vote. That budget has been essentially superseded by a recent speech Mr. Obama gave on deficit-reduction, though that speech didn’t contain the detailed figures that make up a budget”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576345433136872502.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0
PWL
Makes me think of Oliver Cromwell’s words:
“You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing lately….Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
That’s our Congress these days…