Pop Quiz, Gentle Reader.  Here is a post from The Conference.Blog from gop.gov.  When was it written:  A) June 22, 2010 B) December 3, 2010 C) April 8, 2011 ?

No fair looking  it  up.

…Steny Hoyer has finally admitted the sad truth that Democrats had been avoiding since the _______ deadline to pass a federal budget came and went over _______—the House will not pass a budget resolution for the first time since modern budgeting began. According to press reports, the reason Democrats refuse to address the fiscal crisis facing our country is because “there’s little appetite for taking on these issues in an election year.” It seems that Democrats are content to spend this election year hiding the true costs and record deficits of their big government policies.

…Hoyer has recently attempted to position himself as a fiscal hawk, saying in ______, “The course we are on leads to debt that exceeds the value of our entire economy. To a government that does nothing but pay for entitlements and pay interest to our creditors. And an end to American leadership in the world. ” Sadly, it seems that partisan election-year politics are more important to Democrats than America’s leadership in the world.

Hoyer told the press, “It isn’t possible to debate and pass a realistic, long-term budget until we’ve considered the bipartisan commission’s deficit-reduction plan, which is expected in December.” [Hoyer] is referring to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which was established by a presidential executive order (EO) on February 18, 2010, to “address our nation’s fiscal challenges.” The glaring problem with Leader Hoyer’s excuse is that the Commission was never meant to have any effect on the FY ____ budget process, and no Democrat ever asserted that this year’s budget depended on the Commission’s recommendations.

The American people deserve a budget from the House, not a political smokescreen. The Commission was created by a presidential decree and has nothing to do with the Democrats’ responsibility to pass an annual budget. Passing an annual budget is undisputedly the responsibility of Congress and is being shirked by Democrats so they can hide their big spending…

For those of you who picked June 22, 2010, you are absolutely correct.

The Dems have been kicking the can of worms known as the Budget down the road for a long time now.

You see, if they actually passed some limitations, they would not be able to continue recklessly spending our money.

The problem is, even though they are the ones responsible for not passing a Federal Budget when they controlled Congress, you wouldn’t know it by their comments:

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said:

This is no longer about budget issues it’s about bumper stickers.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. whined:

It would be a tragic mistake to force a government shutdown, but doubly tragic if the shutdown were on issues not related to spending.

Democrats are telling their minions in the Main Stream Media, and anyone else who will listen, that this is no longer a fight over numbers but rather about ideology, a blatant attempt to shift the blame that they shoulder to the back of the Tea Party.

The callous Democratic Politicans are also using the unborn as pawns in their poltical blame game, identifying a rider in the Republicans’ proposal for a temporary extension of spending that would outlaw federal funds for abortions in Washington, D.C., which they claim that they cannot support.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell said that they’re just trying to shift blame, as Senate Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., Durbin and even the Leader of the Regime himself, President Barack Hussein Obama, have used the very same language in the past.

McConnell charges that if a shutdown does occur, Democrats would have

no one to blame but themselves.

The Democrats refuse to admit their liability for this fiasco.  On March 29th, for Majority Leader of the House Steny Hoyer said:

It’s self-evident we don’t control Washington, or we wouldn’t be having this problem.

No, you wouldn’t, Steny.  You guys would just kick it down the road again.

So, what is United States President Barack Hussein Obama, the Leader of the Free World, doing about this impasse?

Well, other than making some vague threats and blaming the Republicans, not a whole lot.

Scooter and the gang issued this State of Administrative Policy yesterday:

The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1363, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes. As the President stated on April 5, 2011, if negotiations are making significant progress, the Administration would support a short-term, clean Continuing Resolution to allow for enactment of a final bill.

For the past several weeks, the Administration has worked diligently and in good faith to find common ground on the shared goal of cutting spending. After giving the Congress more time by signing short-term extensions into law, the President believes that we need to put politics aside and work out our differences for a bill that covers the rest of the fiscal year. This bill is a distraction from the real work that would bring us closer to a reasonable compromise for funding the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 and avert a disruptive Federal Government shutdown that would put the Nation’s economic recovery in jeopardy.

Besides, the American public is actually figuring out which party is to blame for this mess.