December 14th, 2010, Washington, DC–From ALG News’ Capitol Hill Correspondent Rick Manning:
House Democrats posturing on the tax compromise will continue, but as conservative/tea party pressure continues on Republicans to reject the deal, if Pelosi and crew are smart, they will pass the Senate bill without changes. Moody’s announcement that passage of the legislation will increase the likelihood that the U.S. government’s bond rating will be lowered in the next two years adds pressure to the 112th Congress to enact real budget cuts in order to stave off, the massive increase in interest costs to fund our national debt that a rating increase would create.
The first step in enforcing budget restraint is for Senate Republicans to only allow passage of a short term continuing resolution to allow them the flexibility to cut real spending in 2011, rather than waiting until Fiscal Year 2012 to take steps to get spending under control.
Ironically, Democrats who were unwilling to pass a budget for FY11 before the election now want to enforce their spending priorities on the new Republican House through a CR. Included in these priorities is funding ObamaCare’s implementation even though the law’s Constitutionality is now in serious question due to the decision by federal Judge Henry Hudson in Virginia’s ruling yesterday.
Those who pushed through passage of the law specifically chose not to include a severability clause, meaning if one part of the law was found to be unconstitutional, the whole law was thrown out, because they knew that without the funding mechanisms within the individual mandate section, the law was a budget nightmare. Hudson’s decision did not throw out the entire law, but eliminated the individual mandate, meaning that if Hudson is upheld, and ObamaCare goes into effect, the nation faces an even more disastrous fiscal situation. This is why stopping a CR that extends through the end of FY11 is essential to allowing the new Congress to deal with the likely budgetary tsunami that is likely to occur.
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