Unbelievable. As Ed Morrissey at Hot Air points out it didn’t even occur to the Washington Post in this Post-Pew poll last week that the Senate Democrats could possibly bear any responsibility for the stalled negotiations over sequestration ~
And naturally, who do the leftie sheeple pin the blame on?
If the Post actually considered printing the truth, their readers would learn that it was the Dems – and their fearless feckless leader – who really precipitated the entire sequestration crisis. The Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to pass a budget for almost four years; “an egregious dereliction of duty on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D–NV) watch.”
By the way, if the Senate had followed the law and produced normal-order budgets, we wouldn’t have the sequestration at all. The budget resolutions of both chambers would have gone to conference committee, which would have hashed out the differences. Obama would have signed the budgets, and we would have avoided nearly four years of crisis funding for the federal government.
Reid and Obama haven’t used normal order because they want to keep using continuing resolutions as a means to keep the inflated FY2010 spending levels as the baseline going forward, and especially because they want to keep House Republicans from having a real voice on spending and budgeting.