Republicans Ignore Ghosts of Elections Past

It never ceases to amaze me how Beltway Republicans continuously delude themselves. Here we are looking at a possible blue wave and these yahoos can’t comprehend the reasons why. The ghosts of 2006 are wailing and moaning and shaking their chains hoping to attract the attention of these unprincipled waifs. Even Scrooge had a clue after the third visitation. Does the GOP really need a second?


If Republicans lose the House, the blame rightfully falls on leadership. Conservatives need to disabuse themselves of the notion that the rank and file are responsible for the failings of Speaker Ryan and his coterie of establishment hirelings.That $1.3 trillion omnibus package was thrust upon Congress without notice or even a debate.


So, the first ghost of elections past had to do with unprincipled spending. What about the second? Well, that spook has to do with illegal immigration. Again, Republicans refuse to fund a border wall, or show any leadership when it comes to cracking down on cities and politicians who aid and abet illegal aliens. Instead, they insist on “comprehensive immigration reform” which translates into amnesty. How many politicians have died on that hill? Apparently, not enough.



And finally the third and fatal ghost of elections past are Democrats acting like conservatives. How many times are we going to allow this Trojan horse into the House chamber? We’ve already witnessed this in a number of special elections already. Can anyone say Alabama and Pennsylvania? How can Republicans allow these shapeshifters to gain a toehold in red districts? Could it possibly be that leadership is afraid that they might expose these candidates as nothing more than tools of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer? Wait a minute, wouldn’t that expose Speaker Ryan and Majority Leader McConnell?  It all starts to make sense now.

Republicans and Democrats Collude to Pass $1.3 Trillion Monstrosity

There’s plenty of collusion going on in Washington D.C. and there isn’t a Russian in sight. Both parties - Republican and Democrat - have conspired to impoverish this country by passing a monstrous $1.3 trillion spending bill that funds the government through September.


Are we not seeing a pattern here? It seems to me Congress always passes an omnibus bill around this time of year that takes us up to the elections. Republicans, in order to justify this crap, campaign on a lack of membership which they need to stop the spendthrifts in the Democratic Party. Then they pass a continuing resolution that takes us up to the holidays. Then, while the citizenry is making merry, they pass another continuing resolution right before Christmas that gets us through the winter, and here we are again with another omnibus bill. What a bunch of scoundrels.


As I was working to put food on my table, a roof over my head and payoff the federal mafia, I listened to various radio personalities contemplate the Republican Party’s atrocious behavior. The local talent hypothesized that the leadership would rather be a minority than govern. Rush Limbaugh, who always has a unique perspective, claimed that establishment Republicans passed this monstrosity as a means to alienate President Trump from his loyal supporters. I happen to think both perspectives are correct.


Whatever the subterfuge, conservatives need to hold candidates accountable by demanding to know who they support for Speaker of the House and majority leader in the Senate. I don’t want to hear any more excuses from these people. We know leadership sets the agenda, however, it’s the rank and file who vote them in.


Source:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/house-votes-to-pass-government-spending-bill-to-avoid-shutdown.html

D.C. Swamp Decries Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Pardon

President Donald Trump’s pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio exposed the disconnect between Washington D.C. and the American people at large.  Here is a statement from House Speaker Paul Ryan:

"The speaker does not agree with the decision,” Ryan's spokesman Doug Andres told The Wall Street Journal. “Law-enforcement officials have a special responsibility to respect the rights of everyone in the United States. We should not allow anyone to believe that responsibility is diminished by this pardon.”

I have news for this so-called conservative republican: illegal aliens do not have rights.  They are here illegally!  What part of illegal don’t you understand?

Here is a statement from a renowned grifter from California:

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), said on Saturday the pardon demonstrates "flagrant disregard for the rule of law in this country."

The only people who’ve demonstrated a complete disregard for the rule of law in this country are illegal aliens and the activist judge who convicted Sheriff Joe Arpaio for enforcing our laws.  

These people disgust me.

Source:

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/348129-ryan-breaks-with-trump-on-arpaio-pardon-report

The Republican Party's Three Ring "Oversight" Circus

It must be nice to be a congressman these days.  These slackers no longer legislate or pass budgets or hold anyone accountable for their actions.  They’ve created a nice little niche which they call “oversight.”  I may not be a constitutional scholar, but I’m quite sure “overseer” of federal bureaucracies is nowhere to be found.

Republicans have a regular three ring circus going on at Capitol Hill.  We see all sorts of escapades and stunts played on C-Span.  There were plenty of oohs and ahhhs during the Obama administration as one scoundrel after another danced before committee hearing after committee hearing while the carnival barkers beat their chest and declared their indignations.  To what avail?  

We all know these politicians are complacent, gutless wonders; but what is really disturbing is how Republican “leadership” was willing to bail on our nominee and embrace a Hillary Clinton presidency.  Here is an excerpt from BizPac Review:

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan advised Republicans to run away from candidate Donald Trump before the election in order to save themselves and hold a future-President Hillary Clinton accountable, Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas revealed in an exclusive video interview with The Daily Caller New Foundation.

 “Are you crazy? We haven’t held anyone accountable. You haven’t even let us hold the IRS commissioner accountable [for using government power to harm President Obama’s political adversaries],” an astonished Gohmert said to the speaker on a call.

 

Rep. Louie Gohmert is one of the few honest men in that hellhole town.

Source:

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/08/20/crazy-paul-ryan-told-republicans-run-trump-save-527494

House Votes to Bailout Spendthrift Puerto Rico

Washington D.C. elites in the so-called House of Representatives have decided to bailout spendthrift Puerto Rico.  This tiny island has a $2 billion out of a $70 billion debt payment due on July 1^st.  Of course, lawmakers refuse to call it a bailout.  They say the federal government is “restructuring” its debt.  Speaker Ryan declared no “extra” money will go to Puerto Rico.  Yeah, right.

These people act like this hasn’t happened before.  During the 1830’s and 40’s, states ran up outrageous debt by issuing bonds for infrastructure projects.  An economic crisis ensued rendering irresponsible states insolvent and unable to pay back investors.  Foreign governments lobbied Washington D.C.  for a bailout.  They wanted the general government to guarantee states’ debts which, of course, it refused.  Our federalist system didn’t allow such an infringement upon self-government.

Eventually, states paid off their debt without federal government help and were the wiser for it.  Here is an excerpt from America’s First Great Depression by Alasdair Roberts.

“Self-government is no longer a theory, it has been demonstrated,” said John Pettit, an Indiana delegate who had served in both the state and federal legislatures.  And time had shown its frailties: “We have not that perfect confidence in ourselves…and we take our cool and calm moments to bind and restrict ourselves - to protect ourselves against the sudden and dangerous impulses of passion and prejudice…It is to prevent the evils resulting from excitement and passion, that we take our calmer and quieter hours to bind ourselves and our fellow man.”

Many states had, indeed, bound themselves in the years following the crises.  This was manifest in constitutional reforms and new tax policies, but a more important alteration, which both caused these changes and made them durable, could be seen in political culture.  Humiliated by the experience of default or near-default, pressed by angry lenders, and oppressed by new taxes, states had abandoned the internal improvements movement.  They had replaced their sunny views about popular sovereignty with a darker conception of the rationality of political processes.  The economic crisis seemed to have taught them a lesson: that liberty without discipline was a formula for ruin.

Indeed.  Puerto Ricans should have to suffer through a crisis they created; in the end, they will be the wiser for it.  Something tells me the United States will follow shortly.

 

 Source:

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/282895-house-votes-to-rescue-puerto-rico

https://www.amazon.com/Americas-First-Great-Depression-Political/dp/0801478863?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0