Today President Obama had the temerity to criticize Paul Ryan's effort to bring budget reform to the nation. Last week it was his own party that delivered the most stinging criticism of President Obama's own budget proposal. Not with their words of course. Nevertheless his budget was defeated 414-0 in the House of Representatives. It was the exact vote total within his own party that Obama tallied last year when the president’s budget was rejected 97-0 in the Democratic-controlled Senate. These repudiations of Obama's leadership should serve as a wakeup call to everyone who insists on deluding themselves into thinking this man is capable of leading. He is allegedly managing a process that spends $3.5 trillion a year.
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| Martin Heinrich |
It is simply astonishing that over the course of two fiscal years President Obama has been unable to convince even a single member of his own party, in either the House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate, to give him a yes vote on either one of his budget proposals.
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| Ben Ray Lujan |
And so it has become very clear for New Mexico voters. Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman routinely defend this president's budget approach and attack Republicans. And yet when offered an opportunity to put their votes where their political rhetoric is, they shrink from their responsibilities. And in the U.S. House, New Mexico’s Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich are nothing, if they are not consistent bashers of any and all Republican budget policy proposals. Lujan and Heinrich also defend this president at every turn. Again, when offered the opportunity to simply vote yes for the budget offered by their president, the man they claim is their leader, they shirk their duty and vote no.
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| Tom Udall |
Like Bingaman and Udall, both Heinrich and Lujan vote NO on every budget proposal. The truth of the matter is Bingaman, Udall, Heinrich and Lujan support Washington doing exactly what it has been doing for three fiscal years. They are quite OK with spending nearly $4 billion a day more than the federal government takes in as part of "continuing resolutions." These men are cynical. And so far their cynicism has been rewarded. They think if they don’t vote for anything, the president’s budget, Paul Ryan’s budget, or anyone else’s budget, they can’t be BLAMED by voters. All they really want to do is keep their jobs in Washington. Amazingly, Martin Heinrich actually is seeking a promotion for all of the shrinking and shirking of his basic responsibilities. Is anyone going to demand these men stand for something……anything? Time will tell.
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