FLASHBACK: Republicans Never Voted On A Balanced Budget Amendment

FLASHBACK: Republicans Never Voted On A Balanced Budget Amendment When They Controlled Congress Under Bush
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/26/279723/republicans-never-voted-balanced-budget-amendment-bush/

House Republicans last week insisted on passing their radical “cut, cap, and balance” plan, which would allow the federal debt ceiling to be raised only if a balanced budget amendment (complete with a federal spending cap and a supermajority requirement for tax increases) is approved by Congress and sent to the states. The Senate tabled the bill by a vote of 51-46.

Despite their plan failing to receive even a majority in the Senate — far less than the two-thirds required for a constitutional amendment — Republicans have continued to demand, as they have for months, that a balanced budget amendment be a part of any deal to raise the debt ceiling. And the GOP is framing its BBA push as some kind of favor for the next generation. For instance, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, who chairs the House Republican Conference, said today that the balanced budget amendment is “not about the next election. It’s about the next generation.”


Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/26/279723/republicans-never-voted-balanced-budget-amendment-bush/

However, when the Republicans held both chambers of Congress from 2003 to 2006, and had a Republican in the White House, they not only didn’t approve a balanced budget amendment, they never even held a vote on it. In fact, the last vote on a BBA was in 1997, when Bill Clinton was president; the Senate defeated it by a single vote.

ONLY whenever a Democrat is in the WH? Coincidence???? :shrug: :eyes: Balanced budgets don't matter, deficits don't matter, spending doesn't matter, expensive new social programs (which, usually, tend to end up being a boondoggle for private companies) don't matter, and, of course, as we are finding out, raising the debt ceiling doesn't matter- but ONLY when Republicans are in the WH.

they can be all crazy when they can but as soon as they get into power, what balance budge amendment...

there is no other explanation.