Radio Liars lie about "Dems could haved passed a Budget last year"

[Jim the Other Jim]

EVERY ONE of the right wing fools I hear on the radio and Fox have been lying about this -
 
"They could have avoided this by passing a budget last December!"
 
"The Democrats just went AWOL on the budget last year"
 
etc etc
 
FUCKING LIES!
 
"About the Fox News-disseminated talking point that the Dems "could have passed a budget last year when they had both majorities." Let's put that piece of GOP-friendly propaganda to rest with facts:

Democrats were prepared to pass an omnibus spending measure that would have funded the government through September 2011.
 
 
Nine Republicans agreed to vote with the Democratic Party (and it **is** the Democratic Party, folks - not "the Democrat Party" as the GOP childishly refers to it) to pass the funding measure.
 
 
Nine Republicans went back on their word, voted no, and the measure did not pass.
 
So understand, Democrats attempted to pass a measure that would have funded the government for most of this year.
 
 
They had garnered promised Republican votes for the measure.
 
 
Those Republicans then went back on their word at the behest of the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell.

Dec. 16, 2010: "The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said Thursday night that he was abandoning efforts to pass a $1.2 trillion spending measure to finance the government through Sept. 30 because Republicans would not support it."

//thecaucus.blogs.nytimes     .com/2010/12/16/reid-gives-up-on-spending-bill/
Stop swallowing hook, line and sinker ANYTHING Republicans tell you.

[Jim the Other Jim]

And not to mention the GOP LIARS
 
 
December 16, 2010, 8:09 pm Reid Gives Up on Spending Bill
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
New York Times
 
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said
Thursday night that he was abandoning efforts to pass a
$1.2 trillion spending measure to finance the government
through Sept. 30 because Republicans would not support
it.
 
Mr. Reid said he would work with the Republican leader,
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, on a stop-gap spending bill
instead. Senate Republicans also said they would not
support a House-passed temporary spending measure running
through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Instead,
they want to develop a separate measure running only
through the early part of next year.
 
At that point, Republicans will control a majority in the
House and six additional seats in the Senate, giving them
greater leverage over any spending decisions.
 
 
Republicans had pledged to stop the spending measure,
even though it included millions of dollars for projects
that they had requested, and had even threatened to force
the entire bill, which is more than 1,900 pages, to be
read aloud on the Senate floor.
 
 
Mr. Reid in floor remarks on Thursday night said that he
had spoken with Republican senators who had previously
expressed a willingness to support the spending bill and
concluded they would not vote for it.
“They’re not going to support this legislation,
 
” Mr. Reid said. “We now have a simple choice. Are we going to help
people in America?” He added, “The answer appear that
it’s going to be no.”
 
 
Mr. McConnell, in floor remarks, praised the
Appropriations Committee, of which he is a member, for
its work on the spending bill that he defeated.
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