- The latest budget squeal — porkers delight
OK we get it, take government shutdowns, which presumably work against Republicans, off the table prior to 2020 election.
GIVEN THAT TRUTH, THEN WHY WOULD DEMOCRATS ACCEDE TO SUCH A THING IF THEY DO NOT HAVE ANOTHER ANGLE?
Democrat rhetoric always ignores truth or hides the truth when they are not outright lying. Democrats are solid for more spending and hide bound in their blame of evil Republicans for deficits. And this latest deal, because of blown caps and such, still allows them to leverage rhetoric in that Nancy and Chuck can still bring the government to a halt on their own through whatever process (trust us they have it figured out) deriding insufficient spending or insisting on some favored appropriation — and Republicans will be blamed for the so-called shut down and ensuing scares. This deal is just another version of Lucy’s promise “trust me” THIS TIME she will hold the football.
But you decide. Personally I think Trump (and Republicans) could successfully hold everything together in the face of any shutdown and win reelection. Sufficient numbers of people are beginning to get the Democrats number and dial them out on this (Trump can hold his support either way, so why give into this?). It just smacks of more of the same.
Here are two views, conflicting, from good conservatives. First Terry Jeffrey as he serves to explain the deal succinctly, his opinion aside. Then a link to Rush Limbaugh. His lead up to his main point is tedious so you can scroll to the 15th or so paragraph down.
As for this writer, yeah I can be expedient in the furtherance of a greater cause (defeating Democrat leadership and their demonic ways), I just have no confidence in Republican congressional leadership or the party apparat that this isn’t just another deal where they get had, perhaps even willingly. R Mall
Trump And Pelosi Team Up For Bigger Government, Deeper Debt
There is one interest that almost all elected officials in Washington, D.C., share. It does not matter what state they come from. It does not matter what party they belong to. It does not matter whether they serve in the House, Senate or White House.
They want to be reelected.
A key tactic they often employ to achieve this shared strategic aim is sometimes celebrated by apologists as “bipartisanship.”
In practice, bipartisanship less often involves members of both major parties coming together to serve some great national interest and more often involves them coming together to serve their personal political interests as members of Washington’s elected class. . . .
The basics of the deal are this: Over the next two fiscal years, Congress will pass and President Trump will sign spending laws that increase discretionary federal spending by $320 billion above the levels Republicans agreed to in a 2011 legislative deal to raise the debt limit they made with then-President Barack Obama. That 2011 deal essentially said, “We will increase the debt today and pay for it tomorrow.”
Now that it’s tomorrow, the new Trump-Pelosi deal says, “No, we won’t.”
The Trump-Pelosi deal also says there will be absolutely no limit on how much new debt the federal government can accumulate between now and July 31, 2021.
It also says that the appropriations bills Congress enacts to reach these new higher levels of federal spending and debt will not include any “poison pills.”
“Congressional leaders and the administration agree that, relative to the FY 2019 regular appropriations Acts, there will be no poison pills, additional new riders, additional CHIMPS” — changes in mandatory program spending — “or other changes in policy or conventions that allow for higher spending levels, or any nonappropriations measures unless agreed to on a bipartisan basis by the four leaders with the approval of the president,” says a summary of the deal published by House Speaker Pelosi’s office.
Now Rush who seems resigned if not sanguine, is too estimable a person not to read his considerations (link): Are You Mad About the Budget Deal?
And our own Chuck and Joni . . . will they be wallowing with the best of them ?? . . . remember the good old days . . .
