Posted on 02/09/2021 5:43:10 AM PST by Kaslin
Is there even one half-sane Democrat that will stand up and denounce the fiscal atrocity of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion spending bill? Is there not one single patriotic Democrat in the entire country who will speak out? The silence is deafening.
The House Democrats are now rallying behind a budget resolution that calls for a $6.1 trillion single-year budget. When I first came to Washington in 1985, President Ronald Reagan passed the first $1 trillion budget bill. We were all aghast. Now, we are spending six times that amount, and no one blinks an eye.
Even worse, the Biden budget plan would authorize just under $4 trillion of borrowing in one single year. That is more debt than was allowed, adjusting for inflation, to finance the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War I and World War II.
The Democrats plan to use "reconciliation" instructions, which allow the Senate to pass spending and tax bills with only 51 votes in the Senate. They don't need a single Republican vote. Call it the "unity" budget. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Democrats have earned the right to bankrupt the country because Republicans do it.
This bill has very little to do with coronavirus relief. Pelosi has inserted the $15 minimum wage, a $400 billion blue-state bailout to fund leaky government pension programs in states such as California and Illinois, and $130 billion for school funding, even though schools have been closed for 10 months. There is also a $400 per week bonus unemployment benefit that will pay most unemployed workers more money to stay home than go back to work and, of course, billions for the New York subway paid for people living in Nebraska.
We are told this is "urgent" to stave off an economic "crisis." Wait. Congress had already authorized $3.7 trillion in spending in five previous bills last year. The House Budget Republicans reported that there is still $1 trillion of unspent money from those bills. What ever happened to eating your dinner before you get your dessert?
One reason for the mad rush is that Democrats fear the crisis is disappearing right before our eyes. Coronavirus cases and deaths have plunged by more than one-third in the last three weeks, and the vaccine is getting injected into 1 million arms a day, thanks to former President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed program. As for the economy, the Wall Street Journal reported that the housing market is red-hot, with prices up 12% over last year. The manufacturing index has hit a five-year high. Unemployment claims are falling, and there are 6.5 million open jobs in America. The stock market has surged to new all-time highs, and in the last quarter, private sector GDP was up a bullish 4.3%.
Does this sound like a crisis? Perhaps in blue-state America, where governors such as Andrew Cuomo of New York and J.B. Pritzker of Illinois have foolishly shuttered their businesses and schools. But the solution to getting back to the rapid growth of the first three Trump years is to open up the state economies and speed up vaccine distributions.
Those solutions cost almost nothing. Instead, Biden insists that the lesson he learned from the failed $830 billion "shovel ready" bill back in 2009 was, "We spent too little." So, he's doubling down. Don't worry about the children and the grandchildren, who will be saddled with the Chinese and Saudi debt repayment. The New Republic recently advised Biden to "spend like crazy."
So, "crazy" is what we are getting. Crazy like driving 80 miles per hour down the highway drunk and wearing a blindfold. So, I repeat: Will some Democrat somewhere please stand up and tell the drunk-with-power Democrats to stop?
I am terrified the answer is no.
It is time to rise up and destroy these people. We simply can not coexist. They will destroy everything if we don’t act.
“Is there even one half-sane Democrat ... “
It’s not sanity. It’s either evil, or a desire to be a permanent part of the political class.
They don’t give a rat’s behind what happens to America or Americans.
Pubbies don’t seem to care much either....
> They don’t need a single Republican vote. <
To be fair, nothing was done to reduce the deficit when the GOP last had the White House and both Houses of Congress (2015 and 2016).
So this isn’t a Democrat vs. Republican thing. It’s a Federal Government vs. the American people thing.
I don’t know about that. I am Gob Smacked!
We don’t have a leg to stand on. When we’re in power, the republicans spend like crazy. So how can we say stop with a straight face? We can’t. Those republican tax cuts were nice until you read the fine print and middle class tax cuts end in 2026 but the rich never end. That’s disgusting especially since we had all three branches when it passed.
“That’s disgusting especially since we had all three branches when it passed.”
In part, I’ll agree, but I don’t think “we” had all three branches. There were too many establishment types who only wanted to maintain the status quo, and when one of them is speaker of the house you have a problem. Trump hardly had a chance. I only hope more people are seeing how much better it was under Trump’s policies in spite of the GOP.
The answer is a definite “NO”......
The Democratic party is not the same as it was just 30 years ago......It is uber left, progressive, and now socialist at its roots...
I think trump did what he could. But he did spend like crazy as will Biden. One thing we will find is that trump left 4 positions at the postal commission vacant. I’m sure he thought he’d continue second term. But what this does is give Biden the chance to fill them to get democrat majority and they will get rid of Dejoy Post office general as Biden cannot. Plus too many judge vacancies for Biden to fill. Otherwise, he did good.
More is never enough when you are spending someone else’s money.
Meh....we’ve been running budget deficits for the vast majority of the last 200 years.
If conservatives are worried about budget deficits anywhere near as much as the other malicious acts that are going on in (and to) our nation, then they need to wake up.
“So this isn’t a Democrat vs. Republican thing.”
You are right, but rather than abandon the sinking ship of the Republican Party, we should reclaim it from the RINOs.
Leftists and Globalists have infiltrated the Party, who believe in big government and serve big corporate lobbies.
They need to be primaried out.
The only other alternative is a third party - which I believe will always fail.
In the last half a century, the only two examples of true American patriots achieving political success, were the political movements of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
Both chose to rise up within the Republican Party rather than start a new one. Moreover, they were both quite clear on the subject - they rejected the third party option at every turn.
I know it’s not going to be easy to purge the Republican Party of RINOs, but President Trump may have just made it a million times easier.
The RINOs are all exposing themselves as traitors, as we speak.
I say we don’t scuttle the Republican Party - that’s what the enemy wants us to do. If it’s good enough for Presidents Reagan and Trump, then it is good enough for me.
And here is one final argument that I believe is the clincher:
A few short months ago, a staggering 75 million Americans voted for the good guy, a Republican. 75 million!
The most votes won by a third party candidate during that time was Ross Perot’s 20 million votes - and all he accomplished was allowing Clinton to win with a pathetic 37% plurality.
75 million is by far the most votes (legitimate votes) won by any Presidential candidate in history. And those voters are all still out there, more determined than ever to put true Patriots back in the White House and Congress.
It would be insane to squander such a political juggernaut - 75 million true Republicans - simply because the RINOs have sullied the name “Republican”. Doing so would only codify the Left’s victory - it would be the Left’s crowning achievement; the destruction of the Republican Party.
I want to see a the Republican Party win back the Senate and the House in 2022 - but I want every single race to be fought over the issue of loyalty to President Trump.
There are 75 million pro Trump voters who believe their vote was stolen - it is a no-brainer that any candidates who are outspokenly pro-Trump will ride a red tsunami to victory in 2022.
I agree with you there. The Ross Perot comments are particularly telling.
Still, it will be tough to primary RINOs in any significant numbers. So much of election success depends on money these days. If you don’t have the big bucks behind you, you’ll probably crash and burn.
Nevertheless, it’s our best option going forward.
Mitt still has his prime reserved seats at The Kennedy Center, all is good.
“ We simply can not coexist.”
See my tag line.
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Is there anyone concerned about the unsustainable debt for our children and grandchildren?
“Nevertheless, it’s our best option going forward.”
Right, that is about all one can say. There are certainly downsides...
I just think the third party strategy has those same downsides - and more - and it is hard to see any upside.
“Is there anyone concerned about the unsustainable debt for our children and grandchildren?”
Apparently not. Gonna be real interesting when the music stops and all the chairs are repossessed.
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“There are 75 million pro Trump voters who believe their vote was stolen - it is a no-brainer that any candidates who are outspokenly pro-Trump will ride a red tsunami to victory in 2022.”
Kind of like that red tsunami in 2020?
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