The Senate votes to table “cut, cap, and balance”

  To the surprise of no-one the Senate killed off the House’s “cut, cap, and balance” bill which would have increased the debt ceiling while cutting spending and sending a balanced budget amendment to the people for a vote.

  Here is some of what Harry Reid said in announcing this “victory:”

We just completed a very important vote. We have now demonstrated that the House Republicans’ Cut, Cap and Balance is over, done — it’s dead.

Reid said it’s time for the “process to move forward,” as lawmakers look for a way to “avoid insolvency.”

  I find it interesting that at the same time the Senate voted to kill “cut, cap, and balance” without even having a debate on the issue, he declared that this makes it possible for the process to move forward. I say this because as of right now the House is the only branch of government which actually moved a solution forward in the first place and the Senate killed it without debating it. At the very least the House Republicans’ proposal could have been used as a means to move the process forward, but by tabling the only proposal on the table Harry Reid and the Democrats actually set the process back, they did not move anything forward.

  Senator John Cornyn seems to agree with my appraisal of the Senate action:

The Democrat-led Senate’s failure to both produce a budget and pass the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011 underscores the Democrats’ irresponsible commitment to the status quo,” Cornyn said. “While the President and Senator Reid refuse to produce a plan to deal with our debt crisis or get debt help from the experts, Republicans will keep working to meet the nation’s fiscal challenges

  How many times have we heard Barack Obama claim that he was willing to listen to all proposals from both sides of the aisle? Yet when the possibility to listen to a proposal became a reality he quickly brushed it aside calling it a calling it a partisan game and threatened to veto it. This hardly seems like the words of a man serious about bipartisan debate. Instead of using the bill as a springboard for more negotiation he called on the Senate to kill the bill and Harry Reid obliged him.

  Harry Reid and Barack Obama have failed to introduce any type of plan whatsoever, but the House did introduce a plan and the Obama regime denounced it sight unseen and without debate. It is now back to square one because the Obama regime was too blinded by ideology to even make an attempt at reconciling this bill, while at the same time claiming that it is the Republicans who are refusing to compromise.

  These frauds are trying to have it both ways; they claim the Republicans are unwilling to compromise while killing a Republican sponsored bill without even hinting at trying to compromise on this legislation. It is becoming abundantly clear that Barack Obama is the one who is most unwilling to compromise and it is time to call his bluff.