Who says bipartisanship is dead in Washington? House Republicans played the dastardly trick of putting President Obama's budget proposal to a floor vote on Wednesday, and the verdict was a unanimous defeat—414-0. Fifteen Democrats did the White House the favor of not voting on the measure that would raise taxes by $1.9 trillion.
The repudiation of Mr. Obama's budget was one of several votes this week that revealed the state of fiscal politics in this election year. Most notably, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan's budget passed 228-191 on Thursday, amid Democratic chortling for the second straight year that this will cost Republicans their majority because it dares to reform Medicare.
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