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Empty Chairs = No Budget

Thursday April 19th, 2012   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 8:45am PDT   •   18 Comments

Here is an apparently common scene today from the U.S. Senate’s first session to attempt to mark up a budget for the first time in almost three years (we’re nearly a week away from the official anniversary of the last time the Democratic Party-controlled body acted to do so, as they are required to do by law):

Empty Chairs for No Show Democratic Party Senators at 18 April 2012 Budget Markup Meeting

Townhall’s Guy Benson explains:

What you’re looking at is a view of today’s Senate Budget Committee meeting, at which Chairman Kent Conrad conducted a faux “markup” of his party’s FY 2013 budget resolution. The near side of the table is where Democrats were supposed to sit. Granted, this entire exercise was somewhat academic because its resulting product would receive neither a vote in this committee, nor in the Senate at large. Details! Throughout much of the session, all 11 Republican members were present to, you know, do their jobs. Of the 12 committee Democrats, no more than 3 or 4 were in attendance at any given time, according to sources inside the meeting. “[The Democrats] showed absolutely no interest in discussing our big picture problems or offering solutions,” a GOP budget aide tells Townhall. “Those who were there showed up only to make a brief statement for the record, then took off. The photo speaks for itself.”

We don’t expect much good to ever come out of Washington D.C., but we at least expect elected officials to attend their photo ops....



18 Responses to “Empty Chairs = No Budget”

  1. Jimmy Mac says:
    April 19, 2012 at 11:23 am

    When I don’t show up for work – I don’t get paid. I wish it held true here too!

  2. Jean Hampton says:
    April 19, 2012 at 11:29 am

    Typical, irresponsible, out of touch twits who could care less about the American people whom they are supposed to represent. They should all be fired for not doing their job!

  3. Roxy Evans says:
    April 19, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Why are you not listening to the people?

  4. Beverly Plummer says:
    April 19, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Come on November!!! We the people will remember.

  5. debbie heringer says:
    April 19, 2012 at 11:52 am

    All this is a big bull c*** party nothing going to get done for the poor. Neither party is for the homeless or hunger. It’s sad. Both sides have hunger and homeless. Do something about it! Cost of food goes up and food stamps get cut. Everything is put on the poor. It is sad. I don’t want to vote for either party. Our bills go up and our money goes down. You all feed and help build around the world. GOD HELP US! We are losing our rights. They don’t listen to us, not just one side but both sides. I have to live on $679.00 a month. Let’s see you all do that. You took our money and we went without power (water-food-doctors), lost our homes. Some of us don’t have nothing left. YOU NEED TO TAKE CARE OF HOME FIRST!!!!!

  6. vincent says:
    April 19, 2012 at 11:57 am

    At least I know where my hard-earned taxes go.

  7. Tom Hahn says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    A******S!!!!!

  8. William Gilpin says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    This is a sad demonstration to the fact that unless the Dems can buy their votes with government handouts they aren’t interested in governing at all. Wake up my Fellow Americans and please stop this insane nonsense. Try and commit yourself to being responsible for your own livelihood and I will commit myself to being responsible for myself.

    No excuses, just get up everyday and work on making your own life better without asking anyone for anything. Have a Nice Day.

  9. kipha says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:15 pm

    Looks like the Last Supper.

  10. George Bleick says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    SO TYPICAL – DEMOCRATS IN-ACTION (INACTION)!!! THE NAMES SHOULD BE PUBLISHED (BY OUR BIAS MEDIA) AND VOTERS NEED TO FIND OUT WHO THE “ABSENTEES” ARE. TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE IN WASHINGTON D.C.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMERICANS ARE NOT AS DUMB AS OBAMA AND HIS CRONIES THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. Wayne R. Thomson says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Attention absent committee member! IF you represent my district, are assigned to this committee then you are responsible to attend This meeting and do your job! YOU were elected to represent your district, and you are doing WHAT? What is more important than the job you were elected to do, the job you campaigned to do and the job WE hired you to do? WE did NOT hire you to Golf, Fund-raise or MOCK US! which is what you are doing when you tell me I do not know how hard it is for you to do your job! Good hell, you only have to show up at your meetings and be present in legislative sessions HOW MANY DAYS A YEAR??? Aand you expect me to agree to pay you WHAT????

  12. Fred Saunders says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    We are paying these folks good money to do a job. If they don’t show up to do the job, we need to fire them and hire someone else that will show up and get the job done. It is indeed time to vote out all the incumbents and hire some folks that care about this country and how it is run.

  13. Pat Barnes says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:55 pm

    We can talk, and piss and moan all day but it remains the same....Congress will continue to do what they do best and that is to rob the citizens of the United States of any/all things they can get their hands on for themselves! Selfish, power hungry, thoughtless animals that need to be put in prison for what they have done. They pay no attention to what “the people” want.....only what “they” want! And stupid people continue to vote them in again and again!! As far as the media goes....they are so biased, it makes me sick. They always tell us who the next president will be! Now they are making excuses again for Obama. May they all rot in hell!

  14. Tom says:
    April 19, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    There in no way that Harry Reid is going to allow a vote on any budget that does not expand spending ad infinitum. This meeting simply demonstrates that truth.

  15. Linda says:
    April 19, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    Why aren’t their constituents hearing about their absence?????

  16. mommer says:
    April 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    How are they allowed to do this? Why isn’t someone doing something about this? If corporate America people did this they would be fired. It is time we got tough with this Democratic non-working bunch of dead beats! They should be shown the door and no pension or paycheck after this weekend. As long as they get by with this kind of c*** the more it will happen. Just like the Dems in Wisconsin and then they want to Recall Walker because they did business without them. The people in this country are sick and tired of all of the corruption in the White House! Call their bluff House Members!!

  17. mommer says:
    April 19, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Just wait till Obama starts blaming the House for not having a budget next time. It is not the Republicans who aren’t doing what they should. Everyone now knows that the Dems have no intention in coming up with a budget or approving anything from the Republican House.

  18. Ken says:
    April 24, 2012 at 12:23 am

    Could we call them the “What, Me Worry” Democrats? They’re clearly too busy saving the country from the Republicans they’ve long demonized to worry about distractions like budgets. How else would you explain their failure to put one forth for several years now?

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