Dishonest Dems

Dishonest Dems

Rundown of the votes on various budget plans in the Senate:

• President Obama's budget (S. Con. Res. 18): No senator voted for it. It lost 0-97.
• House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget (H. Con. Res. 34): 40-57, 40 more votes than Obama's budget. GOP Senate Leader McConnell voted for Paul Ryan's budget.
• Sen. Pat Toomey's (R-PA) budget (S. Con. Res. 21): 42-55, 42 more votes than Obama's budget. Leader McConnell voted for Pat Toomey's budget.
• Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) budget (S. Con. Res. 20): 7-90, 7 more votes than Obama's budget. Leader McConnell voted for Rand Paul's budget.

No Democrat besides Obama has come up with a budget proposal in more than two years.  

"If nothing else, last week made it abundantly clear where Democrats stand on today's most pressing issues, and the picture isn't pretty. In case you missed it, the Democrats floated a plan for a millionaire surtax in an attempt to, as the Hill put it, 'force Republicans to accept other tax increases.' They tried to hike taxes on oil companies by more than $2 billion a year, because the industry is currently making big profits; and mounted a nationwide campaign to scare seniors away from Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare reform -- including a new ad that depicts Ryan tossing a senior citizen off a cliff. Detect a theme there? On issue after issue, Republicans are putting forward serious, sober and often politically risky solutions to the nation's most pressing problems, while Democrats play class-warfare games and stoke the public's fear. To cope with the nation's gargantuan debt, for example, the GOP issued a budget plan that focuses -- correctly -- on reining in the government's runaway spending. The only thing Democrats want to talk about is how all our problems can be solved if we just raise taxes on the 'the rich.'" --Investor's Business Daily

Sen. Charles E. Schumer revealed to reporters that the true agenda for the Democrats is getting a vote on Mr. Ryan's budget which can be used in political commercials. 'To put other budgets out there is not the point,' the New York Democrat explained. The point is to 'say the Republicans tried to end Medicare but a Democratic majority stopped it in the Senate.'"

"The poor have been used as human shields behind which the expanding welfare state can advance. The goal is not to keep the poor from starving but to create dependency, because dependency translates into votes for politicians who play Santa Claus. We have all heard the old saying about how giving a man a fish feeds him for a day, while teaching him to fish feeds him for a lifetime. Independence makes for a healthier society, but dependency is what gets votes for politicians. For politicians, giving a man a fish every day of his life is the way to keep getting his vote. 'Entitlement' is just a fancy word for dependency." --economist Thomas Sowell

The sole purpose of the Democrat Party is to lie, lie, lie and expect the American Public to buy the lies since that is all they hear from the Main Stream Media. Dems are in office today because they stole the monies used to buy the votes to maintain them in office.

PL Booth, The Blue Eye View of MO, 5/30/11