March 31, 2011 - 6:07 pm
Speaker John Boehner responded to tea party rallies today that House Republicans cannot impose their will on the Senate in a spending bill. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution states: “All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” That’s leverage. The founders gave the House special budgetary powers. Hopefully they will leverage them.
Budget Pharmacology
Way over in the corner,
Beset by fits and starts,
The trouble-makers loiter
And practice their black arts.
They just don’t keep their focus,
At least like you and I.
Their minds begin to wander;
Their thoughts go all awry.
When jolted by a crisis
They go into a state,
Unable to face problems
That make them concentrate.
Just take a look at Durbin
Whose thoughts have gone askew,
Ignoring our debt crisis
And lecturing on chew.
And how ’bout Charlie Schumer’s
Extremist conference call?
I’m worried ’bout that fellow;
He needs his Adderall.
Of course, there’s good old Harry
A Leader, sure as sin,
With poetry for cowboys:
Rush in the Ritalin!
And then we have odd Barney
The Bay State’s figurine,
Who’s introducing ENDA;
He’s out of Dexedrine.
We need the pharma lobby
To generate a pill,
That brings a little focus
To members on the Hill.
I know it’s hard to get there
For those with ADD,
But please just pass a budget,
That ends the spending spree!
John Boehner is selling the Republican party short – and all those new Tea Party seats that handed him his majority – if he does not take full advantage of the House’s duto to ORIGINATE revenue bills.
The Democrats have been playing spending hardball since 2007, and since 2009 by extra-Constitutional Chicago rules. Very well, now let them learn that spending without revenue is more damaging to the Union than their previous spending with time-machine revenue from a fantasy future.
So Boehner had better originate some fiercely aggressive revenue bills, and let the spendthrift Senate compensate, for a change, by reducing spending to meet said revenue.