nation’s unfunded liabilities,
You mean Slave Contracts on Future Generations right?
Today...now that the GOP has the majority...not so much.
Battles? The GOP-e surrendered when they threw away their only weapon immediately after the election by announcing they won’t allow a “shutdown”. Anything they do now is just a show for the rubes.
The Scottish Jurist and Historian Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler published a collection of lectures in 1801. He advanced a theory of democracy based on historical observation:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesses from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
200+ years ago!
Rumor on the hill has it that John Boehner tried to sabotage the Budget Committee last week in the 11th hour of their deliberations and lost. Tom Price, Budget Committee Chair, rallied his committee and ended up beating Boehner’s feeble attempt to kill their proposals. Will be interesting to see how the Price vs Boehner relationship will play out on Tuesday as the Budget is debated in the House. Will Boehner rally his Dems to kill it? Stay tuned.