New Mexico's senior citizens wondering about their social security checks arriving on time got bad news from four of the five the elected officials this state sent to Washington this week. Earlier in the week Rep. Martin Heinrich, who wants to be a senator, and Ben Ray Lujan who wants to be re-elected, rejected a compromise bill that would have kept the government running and raised the debt ceiling. And this morning Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall drove a couple more nails in the compromise coffin when they also rejected the same Cut, Cap, and Balance compromise plan in the U.S. Senate. When it was all said and done Senators Udall and Bingaman have voted NO to every proposed budget this year, while proposing nothing themselves. Both New Mexico Senators voted against President Obama's budget, and they also voted against Paul Ryan's budget. Now they have voted against a compromise debt ceiling lifting proposal that passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a comfortable margin earlier in the week. While never getting a chance to vote on the president's budget (since it failed to garner a single vote in the Senate), NM Rep's Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich have also fail to say YES to all budget proposals.
It would seem that Rep. Steve Pearce is the only elected official representing New Mexico in Washington willing to compromise. And it now appears that President Obama will have to decide if seniors get paid next month. No doubt if he decides to stiff the elderly in New Mexico, it won't be Lujan, Heinrich, Udall, and Bingaman that he blames. Instead, and despite the fact that their votes are prolonging the crisis, he will no doubt blame leaders like Steve Pearce who have actually cast votes to keep government running but with the provision that government be put it on a budgetary diet. New Mexico voters should pay attention to the shell game and know who is going to shut down government and who wants to keep it running.
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