Category Archives: senate
King of the Hill
Harry Reid won’t be taking up the Obama budget. The Senate’s perfect streak without a budget reached 1000 days a month ago.
The State of the Union is Broke
The federal debt now equals 100% of GDP. It’s been 1000 days since the Senate last passed a budget. The president never mentioned Obamacare, or the Keystone Pipeline. I want my Mitch Daniels!
Won’t Take No For an Answer
Obama feels we deserve to be protected from the Congress we elected, and he’s just the man to do it. To that end he made recess appointments to the NLRB and the new Consumer Protection bureaucracy. Only problem is Congress wasn’t in recess. The Senate was in a pro forma session. Obama says that’s a gimmick. Which is probably true considering the senate was in pro forma session when it approved the payroll tax cut extension.
Looting the Lockbox
Republicans are said to have run up a blind alley since Boehner rejected the Senate version of the payroll tax cut. McConnell is still pushing hard for a 2 month extension of the cuts. After that, they can fight it out again – if Social Security isn’t broke yet. Where’s that lockbox?
Update: House Republicans cave.
Lockbox sighting?
Private Sector Doing Just Fine Until the Rape and Murder Begins
Unable to push Obama’s jobs bill though the Senate, Democrats shoved it through the chipper instead and hope to pass it piece by piece. Wednesday’s piece was money for the public sector. Harry Reid said this is important because “the private sector is doing just fine“. Joe Biden deflected heat from Harry’s howler by threatening murder and rape if we don’t pass this piece of… legislation right away.
Here are some job numbers since Dec 2007 from IBD: private sector – 5.4%, public sector at all levels – 1.75%, public sector federal level +2.29%. Also, Bloomberg reports the average federal salary in Washington, DC is $126,000.
