1,000 Days Without a Democrat Budget

One Thousand Days Without a Budget

The GOP calls out the "Do-Nothing Democrats" in the Senate.

By Kate Havard, The Weekly Standard
January 24, 2012 8:30 AM

It has been 1,000 days since the Senate has produced a budget, and congressional Republicans are getting fed up.

While the Obama administration is fond of blaming its current woes on a “Do-Nothing Congress,” they are apt to forget that half of the current Congress is controlled by their own party.  Today, the “Do-Nothing Democrats” in the Senate have yet again, as Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote, set, "a new standard in dereliction of duty."

House speaker John Boehner’s office marked the occasion by releasing a mock promo trailer for the GOP response to the upcoming State of the Union address.  Titled "1000 Days Without a Budget," the trailer is meant to remind citizens as they watch the address that "Since President Obama took office, 1.7 million fewer people have jobs, gas prices have doubled, and the health care law is making it harder for small businesses to hire and provide health insurance to their employees."