Sen. Sessions: Millionaires sharing budget pain is "rather pathetic"

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said Tuesday that the idea of the country's millionaires sharing more of the pain in terms of getting our financial house is "rather pathetic."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, moving to budget issues on the Senate floor, proposed a non-binding resolution that states: "It is the sense of the Senate that any agreement to reduce the budget deficit should require that those earning $1,000,000 or more per year make a more meaningful contribution to the deficit reduction effort."

Citing statistics that say the median income of S&P 500 companies chief financial officers jumped $2.9 million last year alone, the resolution makes note of the fact that 20 percent of all income goes to the top 1% in the United States while median family income has declined by more than $2,500 in the last 10 years.

Sen. Sessions seemed to consider the resolution a delay to getting to the meat of the matter, which seems to be what major cuts can be made to the budget.

Sen. Reid's spokesman Adam Jentleson made a statement saying "Apparently, nothing irritates Republicans more than the prospect that millionaires and billionaires might be asked to share in the burden of deficit reduction."

I can't believe I'm about to write this...

Mike Huckabee and I actually agree on something.

In an appearance on Fox News this afternoon, the former Governor urged his fellow Republicans to make the deal on budget cuts, drop the social issues riders and move on.

The former Arkansas governor replied, quoting The Rolling Stones, "you can't always get what you want. The reality of governing is, you get what you can and then you fight for what you want the next day. But if you battle everything on one moment and forget that [governing] is a process and it's not a single event then you end up with a philosophy [of] 'I want it all or I want nothing, I want it now or I want it never.' You end up getting nothing, and you get it forever."

I couldn't agree more. Dragging Planned Parenthood, which spends 97% of it's budget on preventive measures, into a budget fight makes no sense. This is surely not the hill to die on. Planned Parenthood helps millions every year with cancer screenings, birth control (which helps avoid unwanted pregnancies - duh!), HIV screenings, and a host of other services. No money is used to provide abortions - it's illegal already due to the Hyde Amendment.

So come on Republicans. You got the spending cuts you wanted. Agree to it and move on. Otherwise, among a lot of things, our military won't get paid and that would be a serious, serious mistake.