Obama fails to deliver a budget on time, again

Fox News:

The White House is delaying for one week the release of President Obama's budget for the 2013 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, a decision that administration officials say was based on "the need to finalize decisions and technical details" but which Republicans say is a direct violation of law. 

"This will mark the third time in four years the president has missed his statutory requirement to present a budget on time, while trillion-dollar budget deficits continue to mount. As the president announces another missed deadline, tomorrow marks the 1,000th day Senate Democrats have gone without any budget at all," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, called it "an inauspicious way to launch his State of the Union address." 

The 1974 Budget Act requires the president to submit a budget request to Congress on the first Monday in February -- which this year is Feb. 6 -- but the administration has scheduled the release for Feb. 13. In 2009 and 2011, the president also did not make the deadline.  

The Budget Act also requires Congress to pass a budget resolution by April 15 every year, which the House did last year. The Senate, however, never provided a blueprint, and Congress was forced to pass a "megabus" to go along with individual bills negotiated after the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year.

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This is just another example of the Democrats' contempt for the law and for the budget process.  They do this because they do not like to go on the record with their spending excess until the last minute when they hope to push it through or blame Republicans for shutting down government.