Howdy – Yep.. you guessed right… it’s FRIDAY again… and we’re into tumultuous weather season for sure. – but the flowers and grasses are pretty and growing.
Budget time comes around the first of July – when things are achieving a bit more of a simmer. And this year, having gone through the toils and triumphs of getting this far… and now with TAX DAY just behind us… the scope of the problem begins to raise its ugly head.
Congressmen are finding out the drafts that had to be drafted in such haste are beginning to show their ugly problems – which will probably linger until the snow falls. It’s hard enough to do a credible job of legislating when you’re paying attention – much less when you’re brimming with overconfidence -- alternating with figuring out if the TEA PARTY people are real… or are they going to go away. From all the recent rumblings… It doesn’t look like they are going away… but then neither are the problems generated by the “hurry up so I can get my ‘legacy’ safely locked away… and ‘nemmine t he consequences.’
At this point at least, it doesn’t appear a very large and disparate group of voters are buying the line. Of course the joys of inauguration etc. seem to fade fairly quickly at the beginning of most Administrations – but this has been a more turbulent beginning than most. The problems that surmount the wave crests just seem to keep coming – and even in the face of bits and pieces of good market news – it’s a vast heaving sea out there – and the winds continue to blow with more than gale force.
Perhaps before long we’ll hit the ‘summer doldrums’ but I wouldn’t count on it… as I recall my academic career… this time of year when ‘finals’ come along – and you’re trying to look both ways at once – forward as well as backwards… it’s’ not a tranquil time even though winter seems past. Well.. the garden holds promise… let’s get to it and see what can be achieved by God’s grace.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack Buttram
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“JUST A MINUTE”
MIZ PELOSI DROPPING THE BUDGET?
Just a Minute: -- Does Speaker Pelosi fear the budget battle this year? Politico(dot).com – a not quite neutral blog says the Democrats, neck deep in the swamp, worrying about the electorate’s mood in November, may just want to skip the whole budget thing this year. That would allow Miz Pelosi to duck floor debates denying Republicans any opportunity to question how taxpayer dollars are spent – no representation. Sound familiar?
In ‘74 Congress enacted the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act to forestall overspending and the President’s impounding funds. The House is required to be the originator of spending bills – they’ve never failed to produce a draft budget even though they’ve missed enacting a real one four times. Miz Nancy said yesterday it’s her intention to put a budget resolution before the House… Will she carry it out?
If not she won’t wrestle with Ohio GOP Congressman Jim Jordan, and has proposed alternative budgets linking spending with revenue. Last year he got 111 votes. Does Congress just want to chicken out this year?
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