In Wislady land, previous budgets don't count for anything. It also doesn't matter that the majority of spending that has occured on Obama's terms were voted on prior to him taking office. In Wislady Land the fact that Obama has spent less than Bush I and II and Reagan. It is not possible in Wislady Land that anything is the fault of a Republican. Much like in Vatican City the Pope speaks directly to God, Republican's speak directly to Reagan and their word is gold. Only those dirty Democrats can be blamed for something.

"...36% of our debt has come under the Obama regime."
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Gee wislady, that means 64% of our debt was created by Republicans! You still have not answered why Republicans failed to pass a budget two years in a row when they controlled the White House AND Congress.

1,413 days since the US Senate passed a budget. 36% of our debt has come under the Obama regime.

In Wislady Land, facts don't matter and timelines can be amended. Wars that don't go well that were started under a Republican, can be blamed on by the next Democrat that comes to power.

Jeb Bush= The SUREST WAY to ensure Hilary Clinton will be the first female president and that we won't have a republican in the white house for 8 more ears. IF repubs put that guy through they will truly have made themselves irrelavant. The ONLY republican that has a chance in 2016 is Chris Christie and its looking more and more like he wants NO part of Washington BS, who could blame him?

I wonder what Obama's wars are costing us?

"Paul Ryan is, inevitably, in the news again. Every year around this time he releases his new budget roadmap, and every year it's roughly the same as ever but with just a few changes for everyone to chew over endlessly. This year, the chattering classes are chattering over the startling news that his budget only gets to balance by repealing Obamacare, but Ezra Klein says that's not news. In fact, it's not even true. It's worse than that:

Every Ryan budget since the passage of Obamacare has assumed the repeal of Obamacare. Kinda. Ryan's version of repeal means getting rid of all the parts that spend money to give people health insurance but keeping the tax increases and the Medicare cuts that pays for that health insurance, as without those policies, it is very, very difficult for Ryan to hit his deficit-reduction targets.

Last year's budget also kept Obamacare's tax increases and Medicare cuts. Then Ryan became a VP candidate, and this was a big problem. So he switched to opposing Obamacare with no exceptions. Now he's once again just a plain old congressman who needs to balance the budget, so we're back to Ryan 1.0."

14. The sequester will decimate the military.
Oh, really?
"Lockheed was in trouble. A few years earlier, the Air Force had started looking into replacing the Hercules with a new medium-sized transport plane that could handle really short runways, and Lockheed wasn't selected as one of the finalists. Facing bankruptcy due to cost overruns and cancellations of programs, the company squeezed Uncle Sam for a bailout of around $1 billion in loan guarantees and other relief (which was unusual back then, as William Hartung points out his magisterial Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex).

Then a scandal exploded when it was revealed that Lockheed had proceeded to spend some $22 million of those funds in bribes to foreign officials to persuade them to buy its aircraft. This helped prompt Congress to pass the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

So what did Lockheed do about the fate of the C-130? It bypassed the Pentagon and went straight to Congress. Using a procedure known as a congressional "add-on" -- that is, an earmark -- Lockheed was able to sell the military another fleet of C-130s that it didn’t want.

To be fair, the Air Force did request some C-130s. Thanks to Senator John McCain, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) did a study of how many more C-130s the Air Force requested between 1978 and 1998. The answer: Five.

How many did Congress add on? Two hundred and fifty-six.

As Hartung commented, this must “surely [be] a record in pork-barrel politics.”

#3 Better not reduce the Military budget just yet. We might get a nice suprise from NK.

MB, I voted for a President, not a savior.
"Chaffetz ultimately conceded that the GOP lost on the tax issue and is now looking to benefit from the very changes they claimed would hamstring the economy and undermine job growth.

The budget will also likely include Medicare savings from the Affordable Care Act and “adjustments for an expected decline in war spending, a move that could reduce assumed expenditures by up to $600 billion over the next decade.” Ryan has consistently derided war savings as “phantom savings” and promised to restore the Medicare cuts during his vice presidential bid.

Aside from adopting Obama’s policies, the budget will likely assume unrealistic levels of revenue to achieve balance in 10 years. "

According to Politifact, "For fiscal 1999, 2005 and 2007, the House and Senate failed to reconcile their different bills and pass a compromise measure. In these latter three cases, the Republicans were in the majority in both chambers of Congress."
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wislady, the Republicans FAILED TO PASS A BUDGET in 1999, 2005 and 2006 even with a full MAJORITY in BOTH the House and Senate. Why?
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wislady, President Obama has submitted a budget EVERY year he has been in office. They are ALL available to view online. You seem to be the only person in the WORLD, besides Hannity, who has not figured that out yet.

Yes the Democrats are completely responsible for the budget, the Republicans play no part, we know how things work in Wislady Land. If only we all lived there; everyone would own a gun, the poor would know their place, and we wouldn't need elections because Republicans would be in charge of everything. Wislady, you've said on here many times that in Wisconsin it's the Democrats job as the minority to work with the majority. I guess then by that logic, the minority Republicans in the US Senate or doing a poor job of bi-partisianship since they should pass a budget.

pharm, The war doesn't matter if you believe what you say, remember the savior in chief was suppose to fix everything. Did you forget?

12. No budget from Republicans yet.(both are to be released this week)
13."The most obvious way in which the true cost of this war was kept hidden was with the use of supplemental appropriations to fund the occupation. By one estimate, 70% of the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2008 were funded with supplemental or emergency appropriations approved outside the Pentagon's annual budget. These appropriations allowed the Bush administration to shield the Pentagon's budget from the cuts otherwise needed to finance the war, to keep the Pentagon's pet programs intact and to escape the scrutiny that Congress gives to its normal annual regular appropriations.

With the Iraq war treated as an "off the books" expense, the Pentagon was allowed to keep spending on high-end military equipment and cutting-edge technology. In fiscal terms, it was as if the messy wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were never happening.

More fundamentally, the Bush administration masked the cost of the war with deficit spending to ensure that the American people would not face up to its costs while President Bush was in office. Despite their recent discovery of outrage over the national debt, the Republicans followed the advice of Vice-President Dick Cheney that "deficits don't matter" and spent freely on domestic programs throughout the Bush years. The Bush administration encouraged the American people to keep spending and "enjoy life", while the government paid for the occupation of Iraq on a credit card they hoped never to have to repay"

11. No Budget from democrats yet.