Video: Watch 20 Democratic Senators say they support a balanced budget amendment, so why won’t they pass the Cut, Cap and Balance Act?

Just 2 days ago, every single Democratic Party senator voted against a balanced budget amendment, killing it and the House debt plan. 20 of those Democrat senators had previously given lip service that they supported balancing the budget. As Joe Wilson would say, "YOU LIE!"

Via Instapundit. Those 20 senators may want to know this: Oh my: CCB bill gets 2-1 approval among adults in CNN poll

In the latest CNN poll, two-thirds of voters favor the idea of tying a raise in the debt ceiling to spending caps and a balanced budget amendment, and this isn’t a survey of conservative-leaning likely voters, either.  However, if you expect the CNN story about its own poll to highlight this result, then you obviously haven’t been reading CNN long (via Poor Richard’s News)... One has to go thirteen paragraphs into the story to find CNN addressing this at all:

Republicans like the “cut, cap, and balance” approach to the debt ceiling, as do Democrats and independents. Most Americans support a balanced budget amendment, and most, but not as many, think an amendment is necessary to get federal spending under control. A balanced budget amendment passed the House earlier this week, but a vote in the Senate is expected to fail.

Also since the schmuck Chuck U Schumer was one of those 20 senators: Schumer: The era of small govt. is over

Not long after the 2008 election, a triumphant Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) stopped by our offices to announce that American politics had changed forever. Never again would we be able to argue successfully, as we had since Reagan, for smaller government. The American electorate had declared it wanted a permanently larger entitlement state. The 2010 election certainly cast doubt on Mr. Schumer’s thesis, but it’s worth keeping his claims in mind as we watch the senator emerge as the single biggest obstacle in Congress to spending cuts.

This is cynicism squared, but Mr. Schumer has been getting away with it because the press pack has fixated on the political narrative of House Republicans vs. President Obama. This gives Senate Democrats up for re-election next year a free pass to hide under Mr. Schumer’s brand of attack politics while pretending to favor spending cuts and debt reduction and to oppose tax increases.

He wishes!