215 members of the House of Representatives today voted to abdicate their Constitutionally mandated responsibilities to an unelected, unaccountable and unsanctioned-by-law body appointed by their political master in the White House. Read it and weep for this nation:
House Democrats passed a budget document Thursday that sets discretionary spending at levels below those proposed by President Barack Obama but doesn’t address how Congress should cut deficits.
The “budget enforcement resolution” Democrats are substituting for a traditional budget resolution sets discretionary spending for 2011 at $1.12 trillion, about $7 billion less than Obama’s proposal and $3 billion less than a Senate Democratic plan. It also sets a goal of cutting deficits to the point where revenues equal all spending except for interest payments on the debt.
But unlike traditional budget resolutions, this year’s version doesn’t detail how Congress should reach that goal, leaving those tough decisions to Obama’s bipartisan fiscal commission.
Got that? No budget – to spare the Democrats from having to stand up and vote for their beliefs in what constitutes proper spending levels. But with an unconstitutional Obama appointed body making decisions for them at some date in the future.
This is what tyranny looks like, America. This is what 215 elected members of Congress just voted for. This is what they checked their spines at the door of the House to pass.
This is the change they hoped for. No accountability for their excessive spending and unchecked taxation. Political cover for their complete and utter abandonment of their Constitutional duties – which they swore to execute faithfully.
This is the culmination of the spend and tax Democrat schemes. Abdication to unelected authority.
Still think the Democrats have your best interests in mind? Still think they are for the “little people”?
If so, get help.
They just screwed you.
There has got to be a constitutional challenge to this: it’s like the line item veto congress tried to give Clinton via statute. It was struck down because it was a delegation of budgetary powers the Constitution assigns solely to Congress. This is an even more egregious violation.
Get used to it–there’s more to come.
It is so much easier to forget that the Constitution delegates power and responsibility!
We can’t get these criminals out fast enough.
I think Phineas is right, but even if it is found unconstitutional, where is the enforcement mechanism?
I go through different scenarios in my mind, and no matter what I imagine the courts might decree, The dems can always say, “So what?” and go their merry way.
Sic Semper Tyrannis!