Making up a new language and boasting about a bipartisan approach does not a budget make, but Stabenow focuses on the BCA as a budget that even the Senate Parliamentarian can't affirm.  In fact, what the BCA did was set up a commission to act and if it didn't, the deal was to cut our military and domestic spending automatically.  That is not a budget, it's a fiasco in lieu of a budget.  It is not x amount of dollars to be spent in a certain manner, it is instead an ultimatum, a deal we can't refuse that has no responsibility.  It's tantamount to giving your college kid $500 for a month's expenses, with no agreement on what your money is to be spent on.  The kid can go buy a sound system, and mooch food off his friends, borrow money and end up pre-spending $300 of the following month's money.  It's not responsible, and Stabenow insists it is.

Stabenow isn't interested in setting limits and making tough decisions.  Instead, she reacted to the worst recession since the Great Depression with new ways to spend money we do not have, and is sending the bill to the people with a snarky, "Hey, it's the best we can do, like it or lump it, budgets are restrictive and stuff."

We must remove this unaccountable, head-in-the-clouds menace, and make it a priority, while she decides her priorities include evading responsible decisions.