Pelosi Black Magic: Deeming Budget Passed Without A Budget

By Bill Smith / Ozark Guru: Many are aware that the proposed War Supplemental Bill in the House Democrats is loaded with 61% non-military earmarks. More info on this at Democrats Load Troop Funding With Pork-Barrel Spending.

But there is greater travesty related to this bill which clearly defines why Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats need to be replaced in Congress. Previously, we noted that the House Democrat leaders were failing (refusing) to introduce a required Congressional Budget for 2011 and a planned "deeming ploy" might occur. Democrats did not want to be on record with a proposed budget for 2011 which they would have to defend with their constituents before the November 2010 elections. Also, they did not want to comply with their own Democratic "Pay Go" rules which requires them to define where they are going to get the funding (new money or cuts in spending in other government programs) for budgeted items. Without a budget, Congress would be forced to fund existing government programs by passing continually resolutions and the growth of government would be debated and likely restricted.

In the land of Fairy tales, we expect to find the Wicked Witch of the West and unreal things to happen. But on July 1st, in the US House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi took on the roll of the Wicked Witch of the West and with her entourage of big spending liberals used "black magic" to "Deem" a 2011 budget into existence. They called for a procedural vote to attach a non-relevant document to the War Supplemental Bill needed to fund our military in a war. The document "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion 2011 budget. Pelosi and her cohorts took fiction and deemed it to be true. They "deemed" a budget to be both real and passed without the budget having existed or having been voted on by the House of Representatives. The execution of the "deeming" document will allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the constraints of having to introduce or pass a tangible real budget which can be read by the public and debated by your elected representatives.

The "deeming" document passed by 5 votes with 215 Democrats voting in favor and 210 voting against (172 Republicans and 38 Democrats).  Connie Hair of Human Event summed up the situation: "Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money."

House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan (R-WI) warned: "Facing a record deficit and a tidal wave of debt, House Democrats decided it was politically inconvenient to put forward a budget and account for their fiscal recklessness. With no priorities and no restraints, the spending, taxing, and borrowing will continue unchecked for the coming fiscal year. "The so-called ‘budget enforcement resolution’ enforces no budget, but instead provides a green light for the Appropriators to continue spending, exacerbating our looming fiscal crisis." A full Republican Budget Committee staff analysis of the Majority’s Budget Deemer: "An Admission of Fiscal Failure"

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