Human Events reported on July 2nd the following:

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.
House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) warned this was the green light for Democrats to continue their out-of-control spending virtually unchecked.
“Facing a record deficit and a tidal wave of debt, House Democrats decided it was politically inconvenient to put forward a budget and account for their fiscal recklessness. With no priorities and no restraints, the spending, taxing, and borrowing will continue unchecked for the coming fiscal year,” Ryan said. “The so-called ‘budget enforcement resolution’ enforces no budget, but instead provides a green light for the Appropriators to continue spending, exacerbating our looming fiscal crisis.”

Un-freaking-believable.  How cowardly.  There are so many problems with this but I’ll focus on two:

1.  In essence, the House Democrats are passing the buck for the budget to the President’s Fiscal Commission.  Did any of these clowns ever actually read the Constitution?  We have separation of powers to provide checks and balances for a reason.  Check the bottom of your shoes, folks, that’s the grease from the slippery slope we’re on.

2.  This is at the same time the CBO is making some dire projections about the state of our economy – particularly within the controls and decisions made by this administration (so those people ready to fire at me with the “Obama inherited this from Bush” line…nice try…yes, Bush wasn’t fiscally conservative, but this is worsening the situation).  In its report, the CBO says (excerpts from Human Events as well):

• The massive health care overhaul fails to address the explosion in health care costs.  “Rising health care costs will put tremendous pressure on the federal budget during the next few decades and beyond.  In CBO’s judgement, the health legislation enacted earlier this year does not substantially diminish that pressure.”
• The long-term budget outlook continues to worsen with each passing year Congress fails to act.
• Under CBO’s economic models, Americans’ standard of living (measured as real GDP per capita) will begin to deteriorate in 2015 and will be crushed by the debt in 2027.  CBO cannot compute how an economy can function with such high levels of government borrowing to finance deficits.
• The growing debt issue is driven largely by the federal government’s entitlement programs including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
• The CBO’s long-term budget outlook is clear: the explosive growth of spending is the problem.

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