Yesterday’s edition of Meet The Press featured the following exchange between Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and Ted Cruz, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate out of Texas:
MR. DIONNE: I was just going to say President Obama put a plan on the table that would balance the budget in 12 years, which is quicker than the Ryan budget. I’m a liberal. I didn’t even agree with all–everything that was in that plan. But this notion that the President hasn’t put down budget proposals…
MR. REED: That’s true.
MR. DIONNE: …he tried to reach a deal with John Boehner and that deal fell through. But he was willing to put a lot on the table.
GREGORY: Well– well…
MR. CRUZ: And how many votes did that plan get?
MR. DIONNE: Well, that’s– that is a side issue because…
MR. CRUZ: It got zero votes. Not a Democrat…
MR. DIONNE: No, no, Obama…
MR. CRUZ: …in the Senate voted for it.
MR. DIONNE: Yes, because…
MR. CRUZ: Not one.
MR. DIONNE: …the vote was put up there as a political matter. The fact is it was a serious plan and serious budgets get voted on…
MR. CRUZ: He got zero votes in the Senate. That’s not……a serious plan.
That’s not a serious columnist, either.
Via Seth Mandel at Commentary.
JOHN adds: Obama’s budget didn’t get any votes in the House, either.
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