Posted on 11/19/2014 2:49:56 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
On November 4, voters fired the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, replacing it with a GOP majority that campaigned against Obamacare and big spending. But the Democrats who lost are still running the show. These lame ducks lack the moral authority to govern. They shouldn’t be allowed to do any more than the bare minimum to keep government operating until January, when the new Congress meets. Allowing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to ram through an omnibus spending bill for the coming year, or make other key decisions, would be like letting your ex-spouse keep using your checkbook. One of the first acts of the next Congress should be to outlaw lame duck sessions.
Lame duck sessions were unavoidable before jet planes. The framers of the U.S. Constitution provided 17 weeks for newly elected lawmakers to travel and take their seats on March 3. That was the 18th century.
In 1933, Americans ratified the 20th amendment to eliminate lame duck sessions. Except in times of war, Congress didn’t meet after the November elections. But for the last two decades, lawmakers have weaseled around the amendment’s intent, returning after election day to deal with issues they avoided before election day.
That’s our situation now. The lame ducks are in charge, poised to act without fear of voter reprisals. That means poised to spend, spend, spend. The federal government will run out of money on December 11, unless Congress approves new funding to avoid a government shut down. Reid will ask for an omnibus spending bill good until September 2015, gilded with a whopping $6.2 billion for Ebolacare, $5.6 billion for expanded warfare against ISIS, $3 billion for an international climate change fund, and other gargantuan requests.
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Checkbook, nothing! That's empty. It's the stinking credit cards...
We should all remember the last time the Republicans controlled the House and Senate under Hastert and Frist, plus had the White House under George W. Bush, they went on a spending spree that took the budget from surplus to deficit and doubled the national debt.
Consider also the Boehner House since 2010 has controlled the federal purse strings yet has essentially given Obama everything he wanted in terms of spending, plus unprecedented discretionary spending authority which has allowed the president to dole out billions of dollars to non profit organizations supporting progressive causes and the democrat party.
All politicians like to spend. I’m not holding my breath expecting Boehner and McConnell to lead the federal government back to sound fiscal practices in 2015.
Credit cards, nothing. It’s the line of credit on the house!
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