Miracles Do Happen: Harry Reid's Senate Passed A Budget

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Kevin Glass

3/23/13

 

Two amazing upsets happened last night: a small school called Florida Gulf Coast University upset perennial powerhouse Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA tournament, and Harry Reid's Senate passed a budget!

 

The Senate passing a budget, of course, is by far the more miraculous occurrence, and certainly a rarer one. A 15-seed upsetting a 2-seed in the NCAA tournament is nearly a yearly occurrence: Lehigh upset Duke just last year, for example. Harry Reid's Senate, despite being legislatively binding, has refused to even offer up a budget since 2009.

 

This Senate budget passed 50-49, with four Democrats joining a unified Republican opposition to oppose it. It's not hard to see why even the Democrats would be hesitant about this budget. It replaces the spending cuts in sequestration with cuts to military defense and tax hikes. All told, there's over $1 trillion in tax hikes. Due to all the spending, the Senate budget spends over $700 billion over the next ten years on interest payments on the national debt alone.

 

Democrat Sens. Max Baucus (Mont.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Kay Hagan (N.C.) and Mark Begich (Ak.) all voted against the Senate budget.......(Snip)