Marathon Pundit: William Daley rips lack of 2011 budget, haggling over '12 on Meet the Press

Some good points were made by White House Chief of Staff William Daley on NBC's Meet the Press earlier this morning in regards to the federal government not operating under a budget.

It was the responsibility of the Democrats to draft a budget for the current fiscal year--they dropped the ball.

Daley: However you slice it, there is a challenge to our government. First of all, no business out there would be at the end of their first quarter and not have a budget for the year they're in, much less putting a budget forward that's for '12. We are only seven months away from the end of this fiscal year, and we don't have a budget, which is kind of ridiculous. No company could get away with that. We have had -- Vice President Biden had a discussion with the four leaders. I think there's total agreement that no one wants a shutdown of this government. That doesn't help our economic recovery. It will do only harm to the economic recovery, and as you're having the energy prices increase, it makes it even more ridiculous.