Steny Hoyer: The Fact is You Don’t Need a Budget

By Doug Powers  •  February 8, 2012 03:27 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

null

I’ll give him this much: with or without a budget, they manage to find ways to spend almost equally irresponsibly, so maybe he’s onto something:

At a briefing with journalists on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Hoyer was asked, “Mr. Hoyer, around the same time of the State of the Union [on Jan. 24], I think it was the same day, Republicans were trying to hit Senate Democrats for 1,000 days without passing a budget, and then you talk about this milestone today, 400 days without a jobs bill in the Republican House. But then on Friday [Democratic Senator Harry] Reid said that he didn’t think they needed to bring a budget to the floor this year [and that] the Budget Control Act can serve as a guideline.”

Hoyer said: “What does the budget do? The budget does one thing and really only one thing: It sets the parameters of spending and discretionary caps. Other than that, the Appropriations committee are not bound by the Budget committee’s priorities.”

He continued: “The fact is, you don’t need a budget. We can adopt appropriations bills. We can adopt authorization policies without a budget. We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending.”

They don’t need a budget, and it shows:

null

**Written by Doug Powers

Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

~ For the latest breaking news, be sure to join Michelle's e-mail list ~
Posted in: Politicians,Politics

See what others have said

Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.

Comments


  1. #1
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:31 pm, Truesoldier said:

    “We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending.”

    That Congress keeps raising and raising and raising…..

  2. #2
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:36 pm, rambler said:

    Who needs a budget…..that’s for stupid people.

  3. #3
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:36 pm, 123upnorth said:

    And America is planning on hitting Iran and spending 1 trillion+.

  4. #4
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:37 pm, 123upnorth said:

    You got a print machine?

  5. #5
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:43 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On February 08, 2012 at 01:31 pm, Truesoldier said:

    “We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending.”

    That Congress keeps raising and raising and raising…..

    Or to use another word…ignoring.

  6. #6
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:43 pm, peteee said:

    i am guessing without a budget, it makes it easier to say to voters, i am not over spending.

  7. #7
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:45 pm, stuckinIL4now said:

    We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending.

    Yeah, Stencil, but the American people don’t exactly agree with that cap on spending or that it’s really a cap. And the real fact is–we don’t need YOU!

  8. #8
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:50 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    “Budgets? We ain’t got not budgets. We don’t need no budgets! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ budgets!”

  9. #9
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:51 pm, RedDog said:

    Please let me beat them with a long flexible cane. Please. I implore you.

  10. #10
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:52 pm, mondamay said:

    We already have an agreed-upon cap on spending.

    And according to the financial masterminds like Greenspan, we don’t need that either.

    Even financial sage and former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has suggested doing away with debt ceiling. “This is an unnecessary problem,” he said of the impasse between Democrats and Republicans at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June. “The debt ceiling problem is synthetic and self-administered.”

    So budgets and debt limits are messing up the whole process of Washington spending us into oblivion.

  11. #11
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:53 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Steny Hoyer: The Fact is You Don’t Need a Budget

    The fact is, you don’t need a lobotomy, er..um..actually, you do.

  12. #12
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:56 pm, Hangfire said:

    “The fact is, you don’t need a budget.”

    I didn’t know that. Guess I’ll go out and buy a 2012 Jaguar.

  13. #13
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:56 pm, RedDog said:

    HAHAHAHA You risten this Steny Hoyer man. He very smart man. Why you need budget you stupid round-eye? You alway come to us when you no have money. We alway give. No more. Now we want land. We want property. We take Hawryrood. We want that Rinsy Rohan girl too. She hot. We take everything. Chop chop.

  14. #14
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:56 pm, TigerLady said:

    “Budgets? We ain’t got not budgets. We don’t need no budgets! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ budgets!”

    Dex, you beat me to it.
    What an arrogant ass-Hoyer, not Dexter. Time to show Steny the door. And punctuate it with a swift kick. Idiot!

  15. #15
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:58 pm, TigerLady said:

    Some days I wonder if we’re gonna wake up from this nightmare! I know our grandkids will never stop cursing our names.

  16. #16
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:59 pm, Hangfire said:

    In fact, Barry should buy us ALL 2012 Jaguars.

  17. #17
    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:59 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I worked for a company where the president said we did no need an annual plan. We went from 150 employees to 18. He must have read Steny’s book.

  18. #18
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:02 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On second thought this comment is totally logical. Did you ever know of a looter who had a long or mid-range plan?

  19. #19
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:03 pm, letget said:

    Guess the d’s are getting ready for bho’s budget, he plans to give them next week, to get a zero approval like last time?

    That graft is mind boggling! Wonder if europe has one as bad as ours is? BANG UP JOB bho and dc! Wonder if the only way to stop this, for majority of us who actually pays taxes DON’T? It would take years for the irs to get us all?
    L

  20. #20
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:04 pm, rambler said:

    They will have a budget when China tells them they need one or when the fed runs out of paper and ink.

  21. #21
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:04 pm, Hangfire said:

    Our Congress makes Italy’s parliament look like a Swiss Watch.

  22. #22
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:05 pm, thejim said:

    How do these people keep being reelected?

  23. #23
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:07 pm, Truesoldier said:

    I showed this to a co-worker who is taking a business finance class. She laughed and said she is going to use that line in her next class on her liberal proffessor. Then after he tells her “how it is” she is going to say, oh so you disagree with Steyn Hoyer…

  24. #24
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:07 pm, RedDog said:

    And swiftly forming in the ranks of war;
    And the deep thunder, peal on peal afar;
    And near, the beat of the alarming drum

    Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;

    While thronged the citizens with terror dumb,

    Or whispering, with white lips — “The foe! they come! they come!”


  25. #25
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:11 pm, Truesoldier said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:05 pm, thejim said:
    How do these people keep being reelected?

    It does make you wonder, doesn’t it? You have this gem from Hoyer, then you have SJL telling us that if we want to avoid another 9/11 we have to keep the TSA screeners and you can forget this one from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA):

    “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”

  26. #26
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:12 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Re pic:

    Hoyer: See, he’s right over there!
    Pelosi: Where, I, don’t see him?
    Hoyer: He’s right there!
    Pelosi: Where?
    Hoyer: He’s right there! Just look where I’m pointing my finger, you stupid cow!
    Pelosi: But I don’t see..
    Hoyer: Oh shut your bloody gob you festering strumpet and just look! He’s right there!
    (fade to black)

  27. #27
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:16 pm, RedDog said:

    I’m not math literate but is that graph displaying a logarithmic increase? Maybe the Mayans were right.

  28. #28
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:19 pm, RedDog said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:11 pm, Truesoldier said:
    “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”

    Yes. At the time I heard this profundity I went to one knee and Tebowed.

    Democrats now, Democrats forever.

    Hi Yah Hi Yah Yip Yip Yip

  29. #29
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:19 pm, Truesoldier said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:12 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    Re pic:

    Hoyer: Look! There’s Obama

    Pelosi(akwardly): Steny don’t point at him. Don’t you you know that’s racist.

  30. #30
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:24 pm, J S Ragman said:

    “The fact is, you don’t need a budget.”

    The fact is, you wouldn’t know a budget if it walked up and bit you on the ass.

  31. #31
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:25 pm, gus said:

    Doesn’t Stinky Hoyer look like a big drinker???
    He has that Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy thing workin’.

  32. #32
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:26 pm, RedDog said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:12 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    … Pelosi: But I don’t see..

    Hoyer: Oh shut your bloody gob you festering strumpet and just look! He’s right there!

    Pelosi: (through her teeth) You may call me a strumpet when you are dressed as a gay harlequin and I am over you with my crop. Call me that again in the public square and you will have two less peas in that shriveled pod of yours.

    Hoyer: (expression of horror mixed with desire)
    (fade to black)

  33. #33
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:27 pm, Hangfire said:

    Pelosi: “Werewolf?”

    Hoyer: “There wolf,… there wolf,… there castle.”

  34. #34
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:28 pm, RedDog said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:25 pm, gus said:
    Doesn’t Stinky Hoyer look like a big drinker???
    He has that Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy thing workin’.

    Can’t believe you left out Diamond Jim Moran.

  35. #35
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:30 pm, spaceycakes said:

    RedDog said:…We take Hawryrood. We want that Rinsy Rohan girl too. She hot. We take everything. Chop chop.

    Hollis P. Wood: You sneaky little bastards aren’t getting doodly sh*t from me, except maybe my name, rank, and Social Security number: Wood, Hollis P., Lumberjack, Social Security 106-43-2185.

  36. #36
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:33 pm, PD Dave said:

    I didn’t know that. Guess I’ll go out and buy a 2012 Jaguar.

    Good idea hangfire, my car’s paid off but who needs to live within their own means, that’s just silly! I kind of like the Corvette Eli Manning got, think I’ll get one of those!

  37. #37
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:37 pm, RedDog said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:33 pm, PD Dave said:
    … I kind of like the Corvette Eli Manning got, think I’ll get one of those!

    Forward the bill to: the right Honorable Steny Hoyer, Rayburn Building, Washington D.C.

  38. #38
    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:50 pm, NavyGal said:

    Oh, those pesky budgets, they’re way too limiting, just like the Constitution has been hamstringing Urkel’s efforts to change the U.S.

  39. #39
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:07 pm, Hangfire said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 4:33 pm, PD Dave said:
    … I kind of like the Corvette Eli Manning got, think I’ll get one of those!

    I’ll take a split rear-window StingRay anyday.

  40. #40
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:17 pm, cnredd said:

    This is what Rep. Steny Hoyer, the current majority leader in the house, said in 2006

    “House Republicans are now on the cusp of failing to meet the most basic responsibility of governing – enacting a budget.”

    http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/us-congress-legislative-branch/13593-hoyer-no-budget-resolution-year-because-deficit-concerns.html

    cnredd
    Political Wrinkles

  41. #41
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:19 pm, nail49 said:

    Caption entry:

    Hoyer: There, that tall one on the left, he’s the one who asked me the question about a budget!

    Pelosi: “Abracadabra, Hokum Da Pokum, you evil journalist are now going to be ‘Well Done!‘”

  42. #42
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:20 pm, Buckley said:

    Surprised Steny didn’t tack on, “Another fact is, you don’t need a Constitution, either.”

  43. #43
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:33 pm, steveegg said:

    Steny Hoyer: The Fact is You Don’t Need a Budget

    Because it would put a crimp in Teh SCOAMF’s plan to be The $6 Trillion (in New Debt) Man.

  44. #44
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:33 pm, steveegg said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:20 pm, Buckley said:

    Surprised Steny didn’t tack on, “Another fact is, you don’t need a Constitution, either.”

    Goes without saying in Hoyer’s crowd.

  45. #45
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:34 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Surprised Steny didn’t tack on, “Another fact is, you don’t need a Constitution, either.”

    Actually his side does drag out the Constitution every now and then when they want to pick and choose from it what suits their need. Even if they have to make it up.

  46. #46
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:36 pm, T-Bone said:

    We don’t need a budget and we don’t need to read bills before we pass them.

    Just do what Nancy and I say and quit questioning us and making us accountable.

  47. #47
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:37 pm, Buckley said:

    Caption entry:
    “Isn’t that the First Lady riding YOUR broom, Nancy?”

  48. #48
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:40 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Nobody reads anything anyway so why have a budget?

    Reminds me of one of my uncles who put a lot of mileage on his cars because he “didn’t believe in maps. Just take the nicest road”.

  49. #49
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:40 pm, Truesoldier said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:34 pm, hawkeye54 said:
    Actually his side does drag out the Constitution every now and then when they want to pick and choose from it what suits their need. Even if they have to make it up.

    That’s right. Everytime they feel that some religious group is going to far the bring up that part of the Constitution that says there is a seperation of church and state….oh wait, nope it doesn’t say that. Nevermind.

  50. #50
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:41 pm, gus said:

    Yes, they had to give Eli Manning that gas guzzler because the FISKERS UNICORN wasn’t ready yet.

    I loved the part after the game, where Eli Manning said.

    “I’m going to SOLYNDRALAND”

  51. #51
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:42 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Government is now like tee-ball and children’s soccer. Keeping score only diminishes self-esteem.

  52. #52
    On February 8th, 2012 at 5:43 pm, gus said:

    Funny how there is nary a mention of ABORTION in the CONSTITUTION, yet FREEDOM OF RELIGION is explicitly spelt out. Congress shall create no law with respect to the estblishment of religion nor free excercise thereof.

    FREE EXCERCISE of RELIGION IS GUARANTEED
    Abortion NOT SO MUCH.

  53. #53
    On February 8th, 2012 at 6:12 pm, zorro said:

    These ignorant Democrats are a disgrace. They have shamed our great country with their ineptitude. Then you have an idiot like Steny Hoyer trying to rationalize their failures. What a piece of work.

  54. #54
    On February 8th, 2012 at 6:46 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    Hoyer said: “What does the budget do? The budget does one thing and really only one thing: It sets the parameters of spending and discretionary caps. Other than that, the Appropriations committee are not bound by the Budget committee’s priorities.”

    Over 1000 days and counting…

  55. #55
    On February 8th, 2012 at 7:23 pm, mattm said:

    On February 8th, 2012 at 3:56 pm, Hangfire said:

    I didn’t know that. Guess I’ll go out and buy a 2012 Jaguar.

    Why stop with one, just buy the company. It’s only Money, you can always borrow more.
    /s

  56. #56
    On February 8th, 2012 at 7:34 pm, OK_Loyalist said:

    If we need no stinkin’ budget, we should be able to shut down the Congressional Budget Office.

  57. #57
    On February 8th, 2012 at 7:47 pm, sparethoughts said:

    The budget is a tool to aid in planning the spending. It is for the benefit of the spender. It should be obvious that spending must be limited because funds are. There has to be some way for Congress to cut spending and reduce loans and the debt. Maybe they should get some savvy moms who have done that to be their advisors. I can’t help but think about the scene in the movie “Dave” when his accountant friend is stunned by the stupid ways the money was spent. As to “mom” advisors, they know how to handle spolled kids, how to mediate peaceful settlements or at least truces.

  58. #58
    On February 8th, 2012 at 8:27 pm, ChapBix said:

    #42. On February 8th, 2012 at 5:20 pm, Buckley said:

    Surprised Steny didn’t tack on, “Another fact is, you don’t need a Constitution, either.”

    He was leaving that to Barky.

  59. #59
    On February 8th, 2012 at 8:28 pm, ChapBix said:

    #42. On February 8th, 2012 at 5:20 pm, Buckley said:

    Surprised Steny didn’t tack on, “Another fact is, you don’t need a Constitution, either.”

    Barky reserves the big stuff for himself.

  60. #60
    On February 8th, 2012 at 9:14 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Steny, Steny, Steny, what were your parents thinking when they stuck you with the dumbest name ever? You, my man, have lived up to the name…
    Another, in a very long list of reasons why there should be term limits. These guys are not fit to serve, and they don’t deserve the honor of the office. They have become pimps and whores.

  61. #61
    On February 8th, 2012 at 9:28 pm, rightisright said:

    that’s good to know we don’t need no stinkin’ budget, now can someone tell me where to buy a good printing press to get me out of poverty? Price is no object(soon as my press is up and running).

  62. #62
    On February 8th, 2012 at 9:39 pm, jackblack said:

    Hey Letget, Go Galt!

  63. #63
    On February 8th, 2012 at 11:15 pm, Papa Louie said:

    “The fact is, you don’t need a budget.”

    The fact is, none of the Democrats can count high enough to put together a budget anymore.

    The coming election will determine if the majority of voters in this country want a responsible government or an irresponsible one. Democrats have been successful at converting Americans to irresponsibility at a record pace. Our only hope, at this point, is that those who support irresponsibility will decide to stay home on election day and smoke a joint.

  64. #64
    On February 8th, 2012 at 11:36 pm, prendad said:

    “BLAH BLAH BLAH, we don’t need a budget”.
    And these people are supposed to be our finest, our leaders, our problem solvers.
    Boy, something is REALLY SCREWED UP HERE.
    Maybe we should do like Belgium, dump the whole frigging government and see how much they are missed.

  65. #65
    On February 9th, 2012 at 7:44 am, old goat said:

    This is what Rep. Steny Hoyer, the current majority leader in the house, said in 2006…

    “House Republicans are now on the cusp of failing to meet the most basic responsibility of governing – enacting a budget.”

    Now isn’t that interesting? Thanks for posting this little tidbit. Maybe we could sign them all up for a Dave Ramsey seminar and make it mandatory to holding their position…

  66. #66
    On February 9th, 2012 at 8:32 am, drbage said:

    Mr. Hoyer, if you and your cohorts continue down the same path, the emperor will soon be addressing the nation and telling us that we don’t need a Congress.

  67. #67
    On February 9th, 2012 at 9:29 am, John Deaux said:

    You know who else didn’t have a budget? Greece.

  68. #68
    On February 9th, 2012 at 11:15 am, hawkeye54 said:

    And these people are supposed to be our finest, our leaders, our problem solvers.

    That is what we’ve been conditioned to believe. Couldn’t be further from the truth. The finest rarely seek political office as a career, those in CONgress are more comfortable as followers, only leading this nation into economic, ethical and moral oblivion, and more often than not create problems rather than solve any.

  69. #69
    On February 9th, 2012 at 1:08 pm, Collateral Damage said:

    Hey Jackass Hoyer! If we don’t need a budget, the YOU don’t need a job!?!

  70. #70
    On February 10th, 2012 at 1:14 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    That graph of the deficit is truly obscene!
    ***
    It looks like the neutron buildup just before a really big nuke explodes. Like our economy will blow up soon.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  71. #71
    On February 10th, 2012 at 10:08 am, Oh-nO said:

    If we don’t need a budget, we don’t need the taxes paid into the budget we don’t need.

  72. #72
    On February 11th, 2012 at 12:10 am, iwasbornwithit said:

    Now THAT’S a “hockey stick”.

  73. #73
    On February 11th, 2012 at 8:54 am, McCloud9 said:

    I do believe that I am going to submit MY Budget to my Represenatives…
    My mortgage, my car payment and maybe even my Utility bills for the next 25 years (Climate Change you know).Curious if I’ll get a check from them lol.

  74. #74
    On February 11th, 2012 at 2:53 pm, Collateral Damage said:

    What’s the best way to hide the trillions wasted by Obastard and the Dummycraps??? Commit NOTHING to writing and SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!!! And do you know what, the RepublicRAT establishment, who is trying to RAM RINO Romney (aka Obama-Lite) down our throats, well, they are complicit!?! That’s why the (R) elitists want Romney, MORE OF THE SAME!!!

You must be logged in to post a comment.


JustOneMinute

» Barack, Youthful Leader!
Follow me on Twitter Follow me on Facebook