Liberals Suddenly Incensed About Budget Process Obama Blew Off For Eight Years

[Geee]

PJ Media:

The latest Leftist hypocrisy is in, and it's a doozy. Progressives are losing their minds over President Trump's budget proposal for all sorts of reasons. Under his legal obligation, President Trump submitted his proposed budget to Congress for approval. If you listen to the Democrat Media Complex, it will hurt the poor, the young, the elderly, the rural, the vulnerable, the arts, the sciences, Big Bird, and federal workers.

 

In typical liberal self-unaware fashion, progressives fail to remember how President Obama blew off his legal obligation to submit a budget proposal by the statutory deadline in seven of his eight years at the helm. Now, I know that strict adherence to the law is not the strong suit of Democrats, but you'd think they'd at least give lip service to holding their guy to some set of standards. Those tardy Obama budget requests were eventually received by Congress—and laughed out of the chamber. In a 414-0 wipeout vote in 2012, for instance, Obama achieved rare bipartisanship, with both parties uniting in opposition to his silly proposals. Two other times the Senate brought Obama's budgetary framework up for a vote—despite his reticence to file it formally—just for the fun of seeing it receive 99 and 98 Nay votes, respectively.

 

I know the Lightbringer did transcendent things that mere mortals fail to understand, but one of those things was to not follow the legal obligations of the office of the president. There was a law passed, way back in 1921, called the Budget and Accounting Act. This law requires the president to present his budget proposal for funding the government between the first week of January and the first week of February. Presidents who bother to follow the law typically wait until February in order to give the Office of Management and Budget time to work out the details.