Obama 'budget battles' with GOP all for show, GOP 'leader' McConnell works behind scenes with Obama VP Biden-Woodward book

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9/5/12, "Woodward book chronicles Obama’s fiscal policy battle with congressional Republicans," Washington Post, Steve Luxenberg

"The book also offers an inside account of the weeks-long bargaining sessions that Biden oversaw as part of the administration’s effort to end the debt-ceiling stalemate. The vice president’s back-channel relationship with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) proved crucial to the ultimate legislative deal that staved off default, according to the book. White House aides are said to refer to Biden, a former senator, as the “McConnell whisperer.”" via Drudge

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Ed. note: The whole "debt ceiling" thing was a made up show to hide the real story which is that Obama has never once passed a budget, even during the first two years when he had ample to massive majorities in both houses. Not even one democrat has voted for an Obama budget:

May 2011, not even one democrat voted for Obama's budget in the Senate:

5/30/11, "Washington is Broken, and Needs Leadership. Where is President Obama?" Senator Ron Johnson, RedState.com

"The Democrat controlled Senate has not passed a budget in over 760 days. Last week, President Obama’s FY 2012 Budget was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 0-97. Let me repeat that, ZERO to 97. The President’s budget that was unveiled as THE solution to our long-term fiscal problems did not receive a single vote in the United States Senate.

This is a stunning indictment of the President’s lack of leadership and seriousness. I don’t know how many thousands of man-hours that over four inch thick, 2400-page budget document took to create, but it was a total waste of time and resources. That is a very sad fact. Instead of acknowledging this failure, the Administration and members of the President’s party have been viciously demagoguing the only other budget plans offered, and engaging in a concerted effort to scare the American public and financial markets over the debt ceiling limit."...

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May 2012, again, not a single democrat in the Senate voted for Obama's budget:

5/16/12, "Senate rejects Obama budget in 99-0 vote," The Hill, by Erik Wasson and Daniel Strauss

"A budget resolution based on President Obama’s 2013 budget failed to get any votes in the Senate on Wednesday.

In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators present rejected the president’s blueprint.

It’s the second year in a row the [Democrat controlled] Senate has voted down Obama’s budget.

Obama's 2012 budget failed 97 to 0 last May after Obama himself last April said he wanted deeper deficit cuts."

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