Rebuke: US Senate rejects Obama $3.7 Trillion budget 97-0

The establishment MSM is in whitewash mode, putting up headlines that the Senate rejected Paul Ryan's budget that was passed by the House by a margin of 40-57. Via Insty: Senate Rejects The Ryan Budget. But that's not the big news yesterday. The big news is that that same Senate rejected Obama's budget 97-0. 97-0! Not one single solitary Democrat voted for Obama's budget! From The Hill: Obama budget receives zero votes in Senate

No senators voted for President Obama's 2012 budget when it came up for a vote in the Senate Wednesday.

A procedural vote to move forward on the president's plan failed 0-97.

Just minutes earlier, the Senate failed to advance Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan by a vote of 40-57 as five Republicans voted against their party.

Why point out that 5 Republicans voted against the Ryan plan and not explicitly point out that 54 Democrats voted against Obama? So with Democrats rejecting both budgets, they sureley must have one of their own, right?

"The Senate just voted unanimously against proceeding to the president’s budget. That’s right, unanimous opposition to the president’s budget that spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much," said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) "Not a single Democrat voted for it. We’d vote on the Democrats’ budget, too ... but they don’t have one."

As Harry Reid had said: ‘Foolish’ for Democrats to offer budget plan. Political courage no full display, no?  s I have pointed out many times in this blog, the FY 2007 federal budget - the last one put together by Republicans - was $2.7 trillion. Since Pelosi and Reid took over, the federal budget is at $3.8 trillion, which Obama is trying to continue at that level. The deficit is entirely comprised of new Democrat spending since 2007.

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