No sense dwelling on the past. 
Charlie Sheen for Drug Czar! I mean, if he takes them all, there will be none for anybody else!
As a fed, operating under a continuing resolution (CR) is a nightmare. A CR means (historically speaking) that the current CR appropriation is frozen at previous years’ level of spending. Salaries/benefits come first, followed by base utilities (keeping the lights on and toilet flushing). Anything left over is to pay for the actual government services and programs. A series of CRs to fund different agencies ends up being the favorites get (somewhat) adequate funding while others really get bare bones, even worse. Every time we operate under a CR (like right now) we have strict orders we cannot buy anything, without enormous bureaucratic approval. I cannot even buy a 99 cent app for a government smartphone without approval from my supervisor, our director and the budget officer.
Bush II funded much of his wars on terrorism off-budget. IIRC, there was no revenue to pay for it, nor was it paid for completely through actual budget reductions in other areas. Bush paid for much of it out of thin air so when Obama came in, he moved the off-books debt to on-books debt. (That’s why Obama got blamed for a substantial increase in the national debt. Obama inherited it; he did not create it. Obama also acknowledged the debt that Bush deliberately hid.)
Operating without a budget will be political CRs with no accountability by anyone to the taxpayers. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects through 2020 using a standard budget process shows something like adding up to $10 trillion to the national debt under Trump’s party list. If there is no budget but CRs that national debt is pretty much hidden behind the curtains until he leaves office. We could find ourselves many trillions more in debt (all at once) than even the CBO could ever imagine. If we last that long.
Finally, don’t expect any of this money to remain in government. I see an expanded use of federal contractors because politicians cheat the population by emphasizing reducing the number of actual public employees goes to the heart of cost savings (one of the biggest lies in government). The reality at the federal level is the number of actual federal employees (around two million) hasn’t changed much since the 1940s. However, the general population has increased from 135 million to more than 320 million, the US economy has exploded, and we all know the budget has ballooned. What is unknown to most is the huge increase in contractors, at salaries far above that of federal employees. The last numbers I found says for every federal employee (FTE - full time equivalent) there are at least three FTE contractors. We recently ended a long-term contract where the average contractor salary was in excess of $200,000 per person. The federal employees managing the contract identified a federal employee salary doing the same job was $75,000.
Try running your own household without any inkling of a budget. So many households exist from paycheck to paycheck right now. How soon will creditors come calling demanding payment if you ran your household with no budget?
Well put (the whole post).
Trump’s historical solution to these problems has been to;
a) say that the people you hired did a terrible job, and refuse to pay them
and if that fails, then
b) declare bankruptcy
This is really all he knows about running a business. Good luck with that when running a country.
That’s ignoring the crux of the question: would the Democrats really want to impeach Trump, or would they prefer to force the Republicans to sleep in their beshat bed?
Or, would they prefer to drag the trial on as long as possible?
Remind us again why anyone would take posting advice from you?
Believe me folks, Trump will submit a tremendous budget. Some people, very smart people, are saying it’s the best budget they’ve ever seen and Trump is getting a lot of credit but you won’t hear that from the lying media. Trump has the best brain, the best words, and the best people. Brawndo’s got what plants crave.
Ask the mirror. :rolleyes:
This is all putting the cart before the phantom horse.
Just because the law requires the president to do something and he/she doesn’t, does not mean that the president has now committed a crime, let alone a high crime or misdemeanor. An illegal action is only a crime if the law specifies that doing or not doing some particular action carries criminal penalties. Not submitting a budget does not carry criminal penalties and therefore is not a crime.
It’s an impeachable offense if the House decides it is.
Yer God damned right. He’d just grab all the credit anyway.
Let him and all his supporters squirm. I wanna hear the excuses they come up with.
Instead of Hail To The Chief, they should start playing the I-95 Asshole song.
… and then it’s “no sense living in the past”… until the past gets rewritten.
*In an interview on “The Diane Rehm Show,” Donald Trump supporter and CNN political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes declared the end of facts. Or, in her own words: “There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts.”
She explained that contention, too: “And so Mr. Trump’s tweet amongst a certain crowd, a large – a large part of the population, are truth. When he says that millions of people illegally voted, he has some – in his – amongst him and his supporters, and people believe they have facts to back that up.”*
Kinda like Karl Rove and his “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality”
If even vaguely defined requirements are going to be tossed, then the House could just start drafting articles of impeachment now based on Trump’s nomination of Mattis with no pre-existing legislative exception. Or that his ties are too long.
It will be a fabulous budget - 140 characters long - delivered at 3 am.
State of the Union - 140 characters. It’ll be the greatest ever.
etc…
Yes, they could. 
But seriously, there is a difference between the President not carrying out the law and Congress impeaching for peccadilloes. The law doesn’t state any criminal penalties for the President failing to submit a budget because Congress already has a mechanism for punishing a President not performing their duties. (And likewise it’s silly to impeach over a poor nomination, because Congress already has a mechanism for rejecting nominations.)
I am no fan of Trump, he disgusts me on a visceral level, but it is only fair to note that as of 2015 the Obama administration had not submitted to Congress a single budget request before the February deadline.
In some cases it was a week or two late, but at times it was as late as April or May.
It also appears that Bill Clinton was 66 days late submitting his first budget, GW Bush was 63 days late with his first budget, and Barack Obama was 98 days late with his first.
TLDR; not without precedent
Let’s get real. Being late to work is one thing; not showing up at all is different.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, why would anyone take posting advice from Der Trihs?
This just proves how racist Trump and Der Trihs are.