The Democratic-controlled House approved a budget blueprint drawn to President Barack Obama’s specifications Thursday and the Senate hastened to follow suit after administration allies rejected alternatives from liberals and conservatives alike.
The vote in the House was 233-196, largely along party lines, for a $3.6 trillion plan that includes a deficit of $1.2 trillion.
The country wants “real change, and we have come here to make a difference,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said as both chambers worked on plans to boost spending on domestic programs, raise taxes on the wealthy in two years’ time and clear the way for action later in the year on Obama’s priority items of health care, energy and education.
Wait…is this the same Speaker Nancy Pelosi that scorned the hated Bush’s piddling $400 billion deficits and promised “pay-as-you-go” budgeting?
It all depends on which party is in power and who is running up the deficit. Just like the anti-war movement. They weren’t against Clinton’s war, just against Bush’s. To their shame the Republicans do the same thing.