Budget Battles

A very last-minute budget deal after much hard bargaining last night seems to have avoided an very embarrassing Federal Government shutdown. It remains to be seen the exact numbers of billions, something around $38 billion, that has been cut in spending, but at least the American people can go on about their business with, at least, the possibility that a divided Congress can actually get some work done. We all know that the $38 billion is peanuts compared to the totality of the national debt, ran up into the stratosphere under the current administration and a previously Democratic controlled Congress.

Obama signed a "bridge bill" today (Saturday) that will provide funding through the week to give time for the budget agreement to be finalized.

To me the real question, albeit not important now, is: Who would have been blamed for a Federal Governmental shutdown? The Democrats? The Republicans? The Tea Party? Obama?

Obama could be blamed for an incredible lack of leadership, but not the budget as Congress develops budgets not the executive office.

Recent recordings from conversations between Democrat lawmakers let the Country know about the Dems plan to try and blame the Tea Party. Yes, yes,...that boogeyman ,...the Tea Party.

Well, the facts only support one thing,....that the Democrats would have been to blame. The same Democrats, under the leadership (if you call it that) of that jackass Harry Reid, who failed to develop and present a budget even when they controlled BOTH sides of Congress,..... and in the wake of the Republican controlled House presenting budgets, intended to begin to bring this country back to fiscal responsibility, the Democrats still could not get anything together. Shame on you, Democrats!

But the main battle is still to come,.....to raise the national debt ceiling, or not, and the presentation of a FY2012 budget.