“It is for this reason President Obama acquired and distributed huge amounts of weaponry to myriad government agencies.”
Obama was president in 2008. In the 2010 midterms the tea party movement defined the agenda (not the RNC) that propelled the GOP to a majority in the House of Representatives. The Constitution gives the House the power of the purse. All spending and tax bills must originate in the House according to the Constitution. Therefore if the House doesn’t include a spending item in an appropriations bill, it is not funded. Exclude a department from the budget and the department has to be shut down. If funding for Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, PBS, or consulting projects to social justice organizations is not in a budget, those programs end and the bureaucrats staffing the program are terminated.
While the Republicans controlled the House from 2011 to 2019, under the leadership of two speakers (Boehner and Ryan), nothing was done to eliminate the social justice spending Obama put in place during the first two years when Democrats controlled the executive and legislative branches. In fact most of the spending Obama wanted during his last six years was approved through continuing resolutions and giant appropriations bills. Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, Federal student loans, PBS, Amtrak and thousands of other liberal programs that had proven ineffective for decades, or were focused on “fundamentally changing America” continued to be funded at higher levels. The GOP majority Congress, elected to roll back the excesses of Obamacare continued to fuel the growth of the unaccountable, and growing, federal bureaucracy.
For two years (January 2017-2019) the GOP had a majority in both houses of Congress and the executive branch. President Trump would have signed bills eliminating departments, ending programs, and cutting the bureaucracy. Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to roll back the every encroaching bureaucracy, the GOP Congress fought the Republican president while conducting business as usual with the Democrats.
Obama initiated the transformation of the bureaucracy into a political force. When it had the opportunity to use the power of the purse to reign in the bureaucracy, the GOP did nothing.
“Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to roll back the every encroaching bureaucracy, the GOP Congress fought the Republican president while conducting business as usual with the Democrats.
Obama initiated the transformation of the bureaucracy into a political force. When it had the opportunity to use the power of the purse to reign in the bureaucracy, the GOP did nothing.“
This explains EVERYTHING that anybody needs to know about this nation’s problems.
-Our POLITICIANS are allied - against We the People.
If we don’t learn to stop arguing with Uncle Fred, that neighbor with the Biden sign, etc…. And identify that our REAL enemies are OUR POLITICIANS, we will lose the fight and learn to enjoy slavery like our friends in North Korea and Venezuela…