Democrats Finally Pass
a Very Unbalanced Budget
The Democrat majority in the Senate passed the budget in the
early hours Saturday morning (50-49) after nearly four years with only
continuing resolutions, 1,448 days to be exact.
The iPad didn’t exist the last time the Senate passed a budget. The budget passed with 48 Democrats voting in
favor along with the 2 Independents. All
45 Republicans voted against the measure plus 4 Democrats. Senator Lautenberg from NJ did not vote. The “bipartisanship” was only in opposition
to this budget.
The Senate’s budget adds trillions more in debt, raises
taxes a trillion dollars, provides more stimulus spending and never brings the
budget into balance. In fact, it still
has a projected budget deficit of $566 billion in 2023. You can read more of those details here,
here
and here.
One interesting aspect of this vote is the Democrats who
voted against this budget. They
were: Baucus (D-MT), Begich (D-AK), Hagan (D-NC), and Pryor (D-AR). It’s hard to imagine that politics were
involved in this important vote and perhaps it’s just ironic that all four of
these Democrat senators are up for re-election in 2014, all from red
states. Romney won 3 of these states by
double-digits, Montana +13, Alaska +14, and Arkansas +23. In North Carolina, Romney won a majority with
nearly 51% of the vote.
If you want a short list of who the Democrat Party believes
are the most vulnerable of the 21 seats they have up for election in 2014, this
is it. The Republicans have 14 seats up
for re-election in 2014. Given that
off-year elections tend to have lower turnouts, especially among the ‘low
information voters’, and barring the absence of Akin and Mourdock-like blunders
next year, the Republicans have a fine opportunity for taking control of the
Senate.
