Posted on 12/17/2015 12:44:12 PM PST by Hojczyk
When you surrender the power of the purse -- and that's the primary power the House of Representatives has. Not a penny of money can be spent in this country by this government without the House of Representatives authorizing it.
Obama can spend all he wants, but if the House doesn't give him the mechanism, he can't spend any of it. But the Republicans squandered that. They gave up the power of the purse. The reason they did that is because for some inexplicable reason, they are literally paranoid and scared to death of even being accused of doing something that would shut down the government.
So to avoid even the accusation that they were going to or would ever even think of shutting down the government, they signaled that whatever Obama wanted to spend, he would get, because they figured that had less damage to them politically than the allegation that they were shutting down the government. So, very simply, ever since the Republican Party became the party of keeping the government open at all costs, we get bills like this. There's simply no stopping the Democrats. There's no mechanism. Every constitutional mechanism found in the power of the purse, Separation of Powers, the Republican Party years ago gave it away, in total fear of the media.
Now, there's also a factor that needs to be mentioned, too, and that is that many Republican donors want every bit of this money spent, and they have donated voluminously to key Republicans in order to get the money spent. So it's not all Republican fears. It's not all Republican caving. A lot of it is Republican fealty and loyalty to some of their donors.
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While we were worried about Islam invading, we took our eye of the GOP.
Trump ought to send a giant Thank You note to Ryan. Nothing could be better designed to remind voters why you cannot trust anyone who is connected to the DC Cartel on anything.
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
Comment of the day!
Why is Paul Ryan looking like a recent muslim convert?
Well this is something we should all be able to agree on.
They said in 1945 that FDR sold us down the river at Yalta. Paul Ryan is out to out-do FDR!
Maybe the purpose of Ryan is to make Romney look better. No, must be somthing else there that only WI knows.
Well, my guess is Obama told him the usual “Covert or Die” and Paul took the road less traveled.(And that has made all the difference!)
Traitorcongress gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
SOP. Why would you expect something different?
This is what sets Trump above and beyond any GOP candidate,
Trump owes nothing to special interest.
TRUMP will reverse all this Nonsense over the past 7+years.
He knows money, and he knows how things work with money, and He will take care of this sort of nonsense.
I have little use for any GOP anymore. GO TRUMP!!
Maybe that the problem. Too many GOP leaders from Blue/Purple states. Too use to being the batter Minoritry party, have no clue how to weld power.
The Boy Speaker is now a Muslim yard jockey for Obama.
A more loathesome, spineless pack of quislings never existed.
I’m beginning to believe that even if Mittens had been elected things would be no different than now. Ryan is a POS and even with the power of the purse kisses Obama’s arse. Way past time to clean house. Our only hope is to get Trump/Cruz, Cruz/Trump elected. Anything less is giving up.
I would like to hear each of the Presidential candidates comment on this bill. I am beginning to wonder if all the other goofy fights over past votes and such have been thrown out there by the GOPe to provide cover for this hideous bill. It has not received the attention it should have.
Regarding domestic policy, given that one of the very few powers that the Founding States gave to the feds to address domestic issues is to regulate, tax and spend for the US Mail Service (1.8.7), all that a federal government shutdown should mean today is a delay in mail delivery.
Patriots could argue that all other federal government services which low-information voters are now so dependent on are unconstitutional and be right most of the time.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
When patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the president.
An added bonus to such a Congress is that it would probably be more willing to fire Constitution-Ignoring activist justices.
But hey, at least they can’t be blamed for shutting down the government, because that is the most horrible thing in the entire universe!
Now they can be blamed for being democrats, because that’s what they are.
Have fun next election GOPE, you bunch of asholes.
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