The point is that the Democrats experience has been that the reaction to negotiating and being reasonable is for the GOP to escalate their unreasonableness. And that's been more effective for the GOP… (View Post)

The rules don't matter if they're not enforced. Trump has broken the Constitutional rules on budget spending already, but cancelling funding for Federal agencies mandated by Congress. And SCOTUS has … (View Post)

I think it's pretty usual for most countries to require a budget to be passed every year*. I think the difference is that there's an acknowledgement in every other country that if a party doesn't hav… (View Post)

It's not going to happen, no. Consequently, when trying to anticipate what is going to happen in the future we should remember that the way things have been done in the US in the past, and what the r… (View Post)

Suppose Trump declares a budget by Executive Order. I know it's not Constitutional, but when has that stopped him, and who else would stop him? Most of his existing public support would support him o… (View Post)