A Balanced Budget?

Congressional Republicans have lost their damned minds.  They are living in an abject fantasy  According to Hot Air, they now want a balanced budget amendment.

In some quarters, this would be considered irony, if not satire. In Washington DC, it’s called “election season.” Jake Sherman reports in Politico’s Playbook that House Republicans plan to introduce a constitutional amendment requiring balanced budgets when Congress returns from its current recess. It comes a fortnight or so after passing a massive, deficit-dripping omnibus bill for FY2018:world. 

I'd be happy if they would simply pass a budget, rather than these endless rounds of spending bills.    Of course, from my latest reading of the Constitution, there is nothing in the world stopping them from passing a balanced budget right now, except for their own inability and lack of political backbone.  They don't need a constitutional amendment to pass a balanced budget, they just need to do it.