April 7, 2011 - 10:36 am
The Republicans proposed a one-week continuing resolution to keep the government going during budget negotiations, and the CR included language that would take funding our military troops out of the argument. President Obama has just signaled that he will veto that CR.
This response is among the reasons I don’t think a shutdown now will play out as the 1995-96 shutdown did. This president is not Bill Clinton, who would have recognized the trap and found a way to avoid it. Now Obama is on the record threatening to veto funding for American troops in the field fighting terrorists. That, plus his and his party’s total failure to do their jobs, will come back to haunt him.
All things equal, you might be right… However, the press is even more invested in Obama then they ever were in Clinton… Look at the AP scrubbing Obama’s elitist and offensive comment to a constituant, telling him to buy a new car if he is unhappy with gas prices…..Never underestimate the power of a biased press……
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the budget is completely in the control of Congress, according to the Constitution. The President cannot veto the budget. Properly, he does not even sign it into law. Congress does not even need his approval.