Democrats' Budget Bust Is Not Only Sad, It's Criminal

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Budget Policy: As another fight over the budget looms, Democrats again choose to do nothing except blame those who try to fix the problem. President Obama and Senate Democrats are masters of this do-nothing game.

House Speaker John Boehner went to the White House Wednesday to talk budget with President Obama. With $15.6 trillion in debt and a $16.4 trillion debt ceiling looming, you'd think the president would be keen to discuss ways of keeping us from a disaster.

But you'd be wrong.

His main interest, news reports indicate, was to talk up a childish "to-do list" of five new government "stimulus" programs that will cost upward of $30 billion and, as with his previous efforts, do nothing whatsoever to improve the U.S. economy, create jobs or deal with the debt and deficit threat.

For the record, Boehner says he won't OK another debt-ceiling hike unless Democrats agree to cut spending. This sets up a major fight just as campaign season heats up — which seems to be the Democrats' strategy.

But the Democrats' shocking lack of fiscal responsibility doesn't end there — not by a long shot.

In the Democrat-led Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday had a chance to finally pass a budget — which he and his colleagues have refused to do for nearly four years now, though the law requires them to pass a budget every year.

As we've noted before, the Reid-led Dems are without question the most fiscally reckless and irresponsible group of politicians in our nation's history.