Landrieu Blamed For Late White House Budget
The Washington Post has a story tonight on the Obama administration’s announcement that the president won’t submit a budget to Congress on time early next year – and Louisiana’s senior senator Mary Landrieu is being blamed.
Landrieu put a hold on White House Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew in October, as a response to Obama’s placing a moratorium on offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The moratorium has cost an estimated 20,000 jobs in Louisiana, with perhaps more to come as offshore drilling permits have been nearly impossible to come by since the moratorium’s purported end – an end which, when it was announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, ultimately led to Landrieu’s releasing her hold despite persistent questions about the White House’s commitment to domestic oil and gas production.
It matters little when Obama puts his budget forth, though. The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives has undoubtedly very different ideas than the President not just on the levels of spending in Washington or the nation’s spending priorities, but on the very nature of the budget and appropriations process. In fact, given the certainty of Obama’s irrelevance to the budget process and the “dead-on-arrival” status the document will likely have when it reaches the House it’s somewhat interesting that the administration even bothered to give reasons for the lateness of its submittal.
One could be forgiven for speculating that the announcement today of the late submission and the mentioning of Landrieu’s hold as a reason is a petty dig at the Senator by the White House. Given the uncivil statements about Landrieu – the president’s press secretary Robert Gibbs implied she was “sad and outrageous” for placing the hold – one more shot across Landrieu’s bow wouldn’t be a surprise.
Moon the coon’s daughter is a real piece of work!
Well crap Mary… you’re not wanted back in LA and the socialist in DC don’t want you… what are you going to do now???? Maybe you can find a real good deal on some real estate up there with your liberal/socialist friends… This stuff can’t be made up!!!!
The 20,000 jobs lost figure is a myth. Only a few hunfred jobs were affected by the moratorium.
did you get your info from snoops. do you live on the gulf coast? i don’t
think so. you liberals all have your heads in the sand. and thats being nice.
You need to open your eye , the rig count has dropped in the gulf, Supply boat that are not working are heading to counrty where there is work[ they only keep the US captain and sometimes the engineer] boats are being tird up and crews are getting pink slip . Open your eyes to what is realy happening , trucker that are not paying there bills because there are no load . Port Fourchon is dead., Just a few boat on drilling job, I’m lucky ,I’m on one of the boats that is working. It does not stop there , all the goods and services that are need to keep it all going is down to a crawl.
Why bother wasting time creating a fictitious budget. As long as “notes payable-entitlements” are excluded from the budget the whole exercise is a joke. Who cares…trust me…they won’t go away.
Did she ACTUALLY do something good, for a change?
Wow, wouldn’t it be a real breath of fresh air if Katrina Mary would take responsibility for her efforts to elect Obama…..and RESIGN?
Yeah, yeah, …I know….just wishful thinking.
That’s your buddies Mary….what do u expect? serves you right you wanted Obama…well you got him…..