The proposal No Labels makes would also reduce the amount of time representatives can listen to voters about budget priorities. That’s fine with the corporate sponsors of No Labels, of course. Their corporations have paid lobbyists who attend special Washington D.C. insider parties in order to get what they want.

among those voting for this resolution against the debt ceiling increase are a huge number of Republican U.S. Representatives who, only a little over a month ago voted in favor of the debt ceiling increase. They flip flopped on the issue, stating that they were for the increase of the debt ceiling before they were against it.

The Democrats on the Super Committee are slightly more liberal than the Republicans are conservative, but the difference is only 3 percentage points – not a very significant amount. The Republican and Democratic teams alike included only one of their strongest ideologues, tending toward politicians in the middle range of their parties’ principles.

A complete roll call of the vote on the budget cuts that were rushed through the House of Representatives, unbalanced by tax cuts, in order to allow for the approval of the debt ceiling increase. The roll call is separated by political party, according to those who voted in favor and against, as well as the three representatives who did not vote at all.

When offered the chance to reduce spending with no threat to America’s national security, Republicans in the House of Representatives almost all voted no. 93.3 percent of House Republicans voted against the spending cut proposed by Jared Polis.

Yesterday, 8 out of 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against 8.5 billion dollars in federal budget cuts. Perhaps the Republicans aren’t really opposed to big government spending after all.

This week, Barack Obama will sign a 2011 budget that pleases the majority of congressional Republicans, and angers the majority of congressional Democrats. Expect the same to happen with the 2012 budget that will come up for a vote in half a year from now.

Anti-environment riders in the budget deal agreed to by Obama are not substantially about deficit reduction, because the programs and positions they create are related to only a very small expense. Republicans oppose them because of their contribution to environmental protections, not because of spending issues.

The Congressional Budget Office has conducted an analysis of Paul Ryan’s plan to move from Medicare to private, for-profit medical insurance, and concluded that Ryan’s plan would result in almost a 300 percent cost increase for senior citizens, who would go from paying just one quarter of their health care costs to paying almost three quarters of their health care costs.

In the 36th congressional district of California, Democratic candidate Marcy Winograd has identified a simple way to break the budget impasse: Cut military spending, rather than the social safety net.