Posted on 10/02/2023 5:02:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Budget dramas, like TV murder mysteries, require a suspension of disbelief. In the end, the main characters will catch the murderer and the Democrats will get nearly every one of their priorities funded. No matter what.
Rep. Jamie Raskin is obviously going on MSNBC to brag about bringing home the pork, but there’s little reason to think that he’s lying. Apart from Ukraine, which the Dems don’t actually care about, they got what they wanted.
Before his victory tour on MSNBC, Raskin tried to make the case why endless federal spending is so vital.
I talked to a constituent this morning who’s the assistant director of gift shops at one of the Smithsonians, and she’s a federal contractor, as tens of thousands of my constituents are. She said, we live paycheck to paycheck. We don’t have a car. And her 19-year-old daughter is trying to save money to go to college. And so we’re talking about real people’s lives here.
Do we actually need an assistant director of gift shops at one of the Smithsonians or the Smithsonians at all?
All of this is being funded by people who do live paycheck to paycheck and their kids need to go to college.
Oh, sure.
It never happens when the Republicans control both Houses, huh?
Way to go McCarthy. Imagine, there’s some that think you aren’t doing your job and chastise Gaetz for causing trouble. /s
Of course. That’s what the GOP does. They do more to work against Trump. I’ll never forget that snarking look Paul Ryan had when looking at Trump. That told me everything I needed to know.
This story is so phony.
REALITY CHECK
House Democrats were desperately using every tactic extant
to delay the vote on Repub’s funding bill vote including:
<><>their motion to adjourn vote ...... which failed,
<><>Hakeem Jeffries “magic minute” time-waster—lets the opposition speak as long as they like,
<><>and disinformation Dem staffers were ordered to disseminate about the bill
The Dems needed to buy time for their counterparts in the Senate time to pass a Democrat funding measure to provide billions of taxpayer dollars for Ukraine, whereas the House-passed plan provides zero dollars for Ukraine.
Upshot. When Dem delay tactics failed, and the House passed the GOP funding plan, wily Democrats changed their tune and began singing its praises—even though it provides zero money for Ukraine—and once they recognized defeat, they voted for it and blithely claimed “they won.”
Obama and Valerie Jarrett care about that money, they’re banking it for use against us when the economy crashes, sending the rest of it to Iran. We’ll get proof of that sooner rather than later…
She said, we live paycheck to paycheck. We don’t have a car. And her 19-year-old daughter is trying to save money to go to college.
Poor life choices. And no mention of a father figure. Protip: skip college.
Gope is actively demoralizing base to stamp out MAGA and return to their role as Assistant Democrats. They are perfectly content to take a 1964 level blowout if the end result is pushing out America First as an organization with influence at the Federal level
We are Poland 1938- It took over 50 years of intense suffering under tyranny to gain some semblance of self determination. I am afraid our descent into tyranny will be more painful and significantly longer to climb out of
Yup, a shutdown doesn't happen because "the Republicans are gun-shy about shutting down the government."
Last shutdown was Trump refusing to sign a continuing resolution over lack of funding for the border wall, and the MSM hammered Trump over his shutdown causing starving orphans.
What are the top 5 things they got in the bill that they would not of gotten in a regular budget bill?
Is it debatable that Trump is divisive? I voted for him twice but his “Desanctimonious” gibe was a diss-too-far imo. I know there are “Orange-man-bad” digs out there, but has any presidential hopeful gone the “bad-mouthing” path like Trump? Maybe it’s a NY-thing but it turns me off. It makes me think Trump won’t take advice from anyone.
Maybe. But note that Dems have no shutdown to campaign on right now.
Once you realize and TAKE OWNERSHIP of the fact that we are dealing with a uniparty playing “good cop, bad cop” with us, it all becomes clear and there are fewer surprises.
I am 70. I was a lifelong republican, but left the party early in dubya’s second term. It took me several years to “own” it. Now, I just see them as the “nice” side of the uniparty and deep state. They are the “good cop”, but we all know what that means.
It’s why I like trump. And I was no fan before he was elected in 2016. Heck, I was temp banned here, twice, before the 2016 election for things I said about him. But he won me over with what he actually did in office. He’s the best president of my lifetime.
Excellent point, Jim.
With democrats it has nothing to do with the US but THEM
Folded like the cheap suits they are.
In reality, politicians spend this money to stay in office. Other than social overhead capital spending (e.g., public roads) and the protection of property right (e.g., national defense, a legal system), everything else should be provided by the private sector. The gov't should not be in the banking business (student loans), insurance (Obamacare, flood insurance), housing (federal housing projects) or any other business that competes with the private sector.
i disagree with dan
the deep state cares deeply about the ukranian spending
Republicans continue to be terrible at making the case for holding the line on federal spending, never mind on actually cutting it, because they’ve failed to communicate the fact that government spending is driving out-of-control debt and inflation, and that all of this ultimately falls on the shoulders of ordinary Americans.
Please note that the centerpiece of Raskin's story is a federal contractor. So why would the Smithsonian need an employee of the contractor to help manage a low wage, low benefit position like AM of a gift shop? So that the actual federal contractor can supply bodies (at a generous markup) and (almost certainly) be "owned" by a minority.
Interesting article by Daniel Greenfield.
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sounds good to me
lets try that
And why does the Smithsonian - they of 19(?) museums - need to farm out an assistant manager position to a federal contractor?
Why, to meet minority ownership goals in contracting.
Why doesn't the contractor pay her a "living wage"?
Less for the Big One.
We don’t have a car.
If one lives in DC, then car ownership is a royal pain. It is like that all up and down the East Coast, in all of the big cities. That's why we spend Billions on mass transit in DC - this lady is exactly the constituent that Raskin wants!
Again, who is the Beneficial Owner of the federal contractor to supply bodies to the Smithsonian?
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