Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Times:

President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it.

Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.

Republicans forced the vote by offering the president's plan on the Senate floor.

Democrats disputed that it was actually the president's plan, arguing that the slim amendment didn't actually match Mr. Obama's budget document, which ran thousands of pages. But Republicans said they used all of the president's numbers in the proposal, so it faithfully represented his plan.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, even challenged Democrats to point out any errors in the numbers and he would correct them — a challenge no Democrats took up.

"A stunning development for the president of the United States in his fourth year in office," Mr. Sessions said of the unanimous opposition.

The White House has held its proposal out as a "balanced approach" to beginning to rein in deficits. It calls for tax increases to begin to offset higher spending, and would begin to level off debt as a percentage of the economy by 2022. It would produce $6.4 trillion in new deficits over that time.

By contrast the chief Republican alternative from the House GOP would notch just $3.1 trillion in deficits, and three Senate Republican alternatives would all come in below $2 trillion.

The Senate is holding votes Wednesday on Mr. Obama's budget, the House GOP's budget and the three Senate Republican alternatives. None was expected to gain the 50 votes needed to pass the chamber.

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Down in flames.

[SrWoodchuck]

Carney 'splains........

 

H/T:WeaselZippers

[clearvision]

Had anything ever been so bipartisan? He did say he wanted that approach....

[Valin]

@SrWoodchuck

 

[Geee]

Weekly Standard:

Senate Democrats and Republicans unanimously rejected President Obama's proposed budget this afternoon. The final vote tally was 99-0.

 

Likewise, the House also unanimously rejected the budget in March.

Prior to the vote, Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions blasted the budget. "It was voted 414-0 in the House this year," said Sessions. I suspect in an hour or so it will go down again on the floor of the Senate by unanimous vote. That speaks a lot. That says a lot. It indicates the sad state of affairs in which we are in. It's deeply disappointing."

"For three consecutive years now, the Senate majority has refused to bring a budget of their own to the floor or to even put forward the President’s in its place," Sessions said in advance of the budget vote. "For two consecutive years, they’ve canceled the legally required committee meetings to work on a budget."

This vote was called by the Republicans, not Democrats.

[Pepper]

Carney 'splains........

 

H/T:WeaselZippers

 

That vote was just a gimmick and that was meth in his coffee in the first 4 seconds.

 

And Carney took lying lessons from Obama. What a turd:

 

"the approach that we need to take is clear to everyone except apparently a significant portion of the Republicans in Congress " Carney forgot to add and 100% of the Democats in the senate

[Saltbag]

Can't we all just get along? Oh, wait, we did. Your proposal sucks once again, Mr. Occupy White House.

 

I would love Romney to go through the history of these joke budget proposals and the Senate outcome one by one in a debate.

[NCTexan]

Those DAMN Republican senators have a death grip on the voting now.

 

Just think what it will be like when we're no longer the minority party.

[Argyle58]

Every member of both houses voted against The o's budget. How much more bipartisan can you get?

[quantim]

Did Elizabeth Warren vote?

 

/s

 

Oh, the WH is just the worst in history except the real worst, the US Senate.