Brace for and blame Congress for another looming government shutdown

Here we go again. Drama.

Only good taste keeps me from laughing.

Get rid of the filibuster. At least get rid of it for passing Continuing Resolutions.

We have to expect SOME consequence caused by our massive Fed.gov spending and America’s vast, bloated, government and its Everest-sized debt mountain.

In most countries, disputes over resources and spending in a printed-money, debt-debasement, marxist social-engineering and welfare state of the type we have now would be a cause for civil war.

Our country is unable to fix it, but at least we take such disputes out on government, for now anyway (and as it should be)

So be of good cheer its not a lot worse.

As long as they can kick it down the road, it will exist. Congress does very little but appearances. The only two things they are passionate about is keeping their jobs and voting themselves raises so they create confrontations in public, hash it out, and then do nothing but do things to have it come back later. This is how they appear working and it is expected by them to have the public on the edge of their seats.

Here is a website with the many definitions of a politician:

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/funny+politician+definition+posters

And, unfortunately, most apply.

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Congress is like a field goal kicker. You have one job. Pass a Effn budget. Geez. It’s not that hard. But I digress.

the Democratic base’s deep desire to derail the Trump presidency makes it near-impossible for Congress to get anything done.

They could get it done, but destroying President Trump is more important than protecting the American people.

-PJ

The federal debt is ~$400,000/American citizen full-time worker.

What do you think is ‘affordable’ when it comes to a house, Mr. & Mrs. Young?

$300,000, tops!

The $300,000 isn’t enough to secure Mr. & Mrs. Young’s $800,000 share of the federal debt.

You might say there’s stock market value to secure the federal debt. That would need to be about $500,000 for Mr. & Mrs. Young and their kiddies. That’s $500,000 after state and federal corporate tax is paid. Yup, $500,000 profit, after tax, just from one American citizen family.

What about the migrants? They can bolt.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/steel-tycoon-lakshmi-mittal-quits-uk-ahead-of-proposed-taxes-on-super-rich-report/articleshow/125520763.cms

Are Ellen and her ‘wife’ back in Montecito? Rachel Reeves made the English air chillier.

I think Congress is on Christmas vacation right now.
They will have just a few weeks to pass the budget or CRA.

I have a crazy idea, why not they actually do a budget for a change? I know, that’s crazy talk but it might just work.

CUT OFF THEIR PAYCHECKS & BENEFITS

IF I DO NOT DO MY WORK/JOB-—I DO NOT GET PAID.

I like to play the Kazoo as I watch the slobs in the Congress “work.” There are still a couple goobers left before all the GOOBs will be gone and Congress will be made up entirelyy of pieces of meat like little Bobby “The Gunfighter” Garcia, Rocket Butt Markie Kelly, AOC’s Band Of Squawds, Pramila Gorilla, the Far Left Fight, Fight, Fight team leader, and Ilhan Omar, the new Queen of Walz’s Kingdom of MinnieSomalia and King Hakeem Skyhook Jeffries.

It can never be "business as usual" again and it doesn't help to pretend. Really it's time for a state of siege.

Also see my tagline.

I’m all braced. Let me know when it’s over, I may not notice.

I liked it, do it again. Make it longer this time.

The universal use of “they” as to whom to assign blame only throws the baby out with the bathwater and defeats support for those in Congress who actually agree with your concerns. You are of no help when you lump those we agree with together with those we oppose, with your universal “they”. You mistakenly blame our allies in Congress for what they don’t succeed at doing, ignoring the obstacles to that success - their tiny majority, their nearly unified opposition and their own few holdout on occasion.

Our electoral opponents are to blame; not some universal”they”.

Or at least enforce the filibuster. The Democrats should have been on the floor of the Senate for over a thousand hours speaking continually. No nights off, no weekends, no holidays, no vacations. I am tired of the minority party just declaring a filibuster and then going home for the night. If they want to debate and discuss the continuing resolution, then make them do it.

I think they might have gone for twelve hours before their older members started dropping.

“Our electoral opponents are to blame; not some universal ”they.”

It depends on your point of view as to what is in the best interest of the citizens they, all of congress, are representing. There is a give and take of lose and win strategies rather than deciding too often on the publics’ best interest. They are fighting for things that don’t help us.

Lets take a look at what the house did on the day before yesterday:

H.R.6910 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To strengthen the development mandate of the United States International Development Finance Corporation, and for other purposes. Referred back to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

H.R.6911 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide that grant funds received under the COPS grant program may be used to combat organized crime. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

H.R.6912 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain combat zone compensation of certain servicemembers relating to remotely piloted aircraft from gross income. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

H.R.6913 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To provide for restoration, economic development, recreation, and conservation on Federal lands in Northern California. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources

H.R.6914 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To establish a program to issue general import licenses to permit a certified importer to pay reduced or waived tariffs or other duties on certain articles. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

H.R.6915 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To prohibit the use of funds to use military force in or against Venezuela. 12/19/2025 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services.

H.R.6916 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To amend title 41, United States Code, to identify individuals who commit certain Federal felonies implicating Federal programs as an excluded source on the System for Award Management Exclusions list. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

H.R.6917 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To take certain land into trust for the benefit of the Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians. 12/19/2025 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Science, Space, and Technology.

H.R.6919 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To combat child human trafficking. 12/19/2025 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Workforce, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services.

H.Res.969 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Expressing support for the designation of the week beginning on September 8, 2025, as “National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week”. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

H.Res.970 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Calling on the United States government to be more involved in bringing peace to Sudan. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

H.Res.971 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Condemning the coercive actions of the People’s Republic of China against Japan in response to statements regarding Taiwan and reaffirming the United States commitment to its allies in the Indo-Pacific region. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

H.Res.972 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Recognizing the significance of Atlanta, Georgia, as the cradle of the civil rights movement. 12/19/2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

And that’s it. Not one thing was decided in 14 issues. Everything was kicked down the road. And some of them had nothing to do with congress other than trying to scalp the citizen’s out of taxpayer money for individual state purposes. That’s called pork. Check the voting record of your congressmen/women before you vote next time and see if they are doing your work. That’s why you put them there. And you are paying them thousands to do nothing but pass the buck. On the 19th a junior high school government could have done that.