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Conrad: Worst Budget Chair in Senate History

KYoung43 Wrote: May 21, 2012 9:31 AM
Democrats live in a world of unicorns and rainbows. We've heard it before and I remember laughing about it (picturing hippies with flowing garb and flowers in their hair). Treehuggers follow the same line of thinking. "If it feels good, do it." No concern about consequences, no care. No fear. This is the world the braindead wanted when they voted Obama to the presidency. Their glassy eyed stares the night he stepped alone to the stage and accepted the nomination (with seas already receding and earth healing) showed how much cognition went into their decision to vote for the slick talker in the sharply creased pants--with no job history or political trail behind him. Votes have consequences, he said often. Let's prove it to him in November.

“By the way, Harry Reid crushed the Democratic budget chairman, a good man, a fiscal hawk. And there are good, fiscal hawks – Kent Conrad – there are Democrats acting so responsibly.”

In Washington – a land of mythical accounting and empty rhetoric – such a claim seems perfectly reasonable. In the real world – outside of Washington political circles and the New York media circus – it is absurd.

By now, most Americans are well aware the Senate has not adopted a budget in more than 1,100 days. For families and businesses, budgets are not mere procedural mechanisms, but rather...

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