I refuse to call this a “budget deal”, it’s a scheme to extend federal spending until March of 2017 when the next President’s (whoever gets elected next year) legally required federal budget (for fiscal year 2018) is due.

3:00am? …Jackasses!   You know what else passed in the middle of the night when no-one was watching?  ObamaCare, that’s what !  1:27am 12/23/09 – Only a few of us, and Santa of course, were paying attention and throwing bricks at our TV sets.  {A Pox On Their Houses}..  Oy, I hate these corrupto-critters.

I’m not even sure why, how,  or even ‘if’, President Obama will proffer a Fiscal Year 2017 budget, normally legally required by March 2016, given that congress has already agreed to spend whatever they need through Fiscal Year 2017.  Of course that’s without even discussing spending of Fiscal Year 2016 (which began a month ago).

Fiscal Year 2017 – hypothetically due for signature Sept of 2016 – is ‘WHAT’ exactly? Status? Damn interesting seeing as the new Speaker of the House was the former Chairman of the Budget Committee that couldn’t put Fiscal Year 2016 budget on Obama’s desk…. 

Didn’t you like how the debt, deficit and debt ceiling was debated on CNBC last week.  What’s that?.. It wasn’t?…  Huh, imagine that.  And,… Well,… Oh yeah, I forgot, Paul Ryan was/is also the childhood BFF of RNC Chair Reince Prebius…. say-no-more!

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WASHINGTON DC […] “The bill is the product of an unfair, dysfunctional, and undemocratic process — a process that is virtually indistinguishable from what we promised the American people a G.O.P.-controlled Congress would bring to an end,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said from the Senate floor.

He added that the legislation “represents the last gasping breath of a disgraced bipartisan beltway establishment on the verge of collapse.”

Obama Big Addicted SpenderLee and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) circulated a letter ahead of the vote asking that their colleagues join them in rejecting the deal.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was the only GOP presidential contender to vote for the package. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) all voted against it.

The Senate’s action on the agreement comes after House lawmakers passed the deal 266-167, including the support of 79 Republicans.

The package was a final legislative victory for outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who officially submitted his resignation on Thursday.

It also gives new Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) breathing room as he settles in to the House’s top spot, by allowing him to avoid what had been a looming Nov. 3 deadline to pass a debt bill and mid-December deadline fund the government.

The deal suspends the limit on borrowing until March 16, 2017, leaving the next fight to Obama’s successor. It also raises spending levels above the 2011 Budget Control Act, increasing funding by $80 billion through September 2017.

It also includes changes to entitlement programs, including avoiding a premium hike for many Medicare enrollees and bolstering funding for Social Security’s disability trust fund.

With the deal headed to Obama’s desk — where he’s expected to sign it — lawmakers will now turn their attention to passing either 12 individual spending bills or one large omnibus bill.  (read more)

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