Another “tough choice” Obama could encourage:
In a bold move today, House Republicans attempted to force the Democrat majority to freeze federal government spending at current levels. Because Senate Democrat leadership failed to get enough votes to pass the porked-up $410 billion omnibus spending bill last night, funding for the federal government runs out today. A continuing resolution is required to keep the government funded through early next week while the Senate Democrat leadership looks for a patsy to give them the additional vote needed to reach cloture allowing the bill to come up for a vote for final passage. During the House debate today on the continuing resolution to keep the government funded through early next week, House Republicans offered a simple, straightforward federal spending freeze as a motion to recommit proposal which would hold spending to this year’s levels and, in effect, strip the 9,000 earmarks out of the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill.
Eight Democrats backed the freeze: ltmire, Childers, Donnelly, Ellsworth, Giffords, Minnick, Mitchell and Nye Update: Hey, if Obama rebuked Democrats on measures like this, perhaps he’d be as popular as George W. Bush.
