democrats have done and i think they ll get one. chris: juan, let s got to the issue brit brought up, the fact that democrats adjourned both the house and the senate this week to go back in campaign, until the election, without passing a budget, without extending the bush tax cuts. that got both sides pointing fingers. let s watch. the party of no adopted a political strategy of obstructionism and now claims that there is not anything happening in the congress and the facts belie their assertion. look at how the 111th congress is so much not so much concluding as much as it has collapsed. chris: whether or not do you think has the better side of the argument. the republicans have been dominating the argument for some time by making it out as somehow the democrats want to raise your tax by not extending the bush tax cuts and what we see on the
thing they wanted to do was vote on those two issues before election day. i see both parties trying to pin it on each other. the democrats saw it better aspening it on the republicans rather than be stuck with it. you may be right. my view is congress last year passed a budget resolution in february and started passing appropriations bills in the summer and fall. this year, for the first time since 1974 and the passage of the budget act, the failed to live up to it statutory requirement to pass a budget resolution. they were supposed to have done that last february or march. they ve not passed a single appropriations bill they left town without passing a budget. we start a new fiscal year tomorrow. we have no appropriations bills. on the tax cut issue, the president has been saying for a year that he only wants to extend part of the bush tax cuts but he s never presented bail to do that.
thing they wanted to do was vote on those two issues before election day. i see both parties trying to pin it on each other. the democrats saw it better aspening it on the republicans rather than be stuck with it. you may be right. my view is congress last year passed a budget resolution in february and started passing appropriations bills in the summer and fall. this year, for the first time since 1974 and the passage of the budget act, the failed to live up to it statutory requirement to pass a budget resolution. they were supposed to have done that last february or march. they ve not passed a single appropriations bill they left town without passing a budget. we start a new fiscal year tomorrow. we have no appropriations bills. on the tax cut issue, the president has been saying for a year that he only wants to extend part of the bush tax cuts but he s never presented bail to do that.
issue, they want to turn the power to write the rules over to to these people is amazing. we don t think that s what the american public want. i m surprised that john cornyn would be so bold as to essentially both that s what they re going to do. let s talk about the democrats record. they they re going to leave town, some say flee town without passing a budget, without passing the appropriations bill. without working on an extension of middle class tax cuts. why should the public reelect democrats who can t get their work done? well, norah, i think you re overstating it. you know the history in this town right before elections. under both parties often the case is they work on budget appropriation after the election. in terms of getting work done, let s talk about it. equal pay for women. four million more kids with health care insurance. saving the auto industry. saving the financial industry.
u.s.-based company. it hig highlights the chinese s government use of laws. they issued a statement calling for him to be released and sent home to the united states. juliet: bizarre budget move by congress getting complaints from both the left and the right. house democrats pushed through a trillion dollar budget but they did so i kind of without holding a vote, not kind of they didn t hold a vote. the measure comes with no spending limit in the year that the u.s. is facing unsustainable debt levels. hugh hewitt is a law professor at chapman university. great to have you here, hugh. good morning. juliet: if you had to give congress a grade on fiscal responsibility, what would you give them? this is an f and it s not hard. on thursday the congress passed by narrow margin a budget enforcement resolution. juliet: how is that different from passing a budget. what it means is they can t