Posted on 12/20/2022 12:38:45 PM PST by RandFan
OPINION:
You have to give the Democrats credit. You can count on them to do the politically smart thing even in defeat. This is why they’ve made a deal with Senate Republicans to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill to keep the government funded for the next fiscal year now rather than wait for the Republicans to take over the House of Representatives in January.
What’s not clear is why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP Senate colleagues are going along. Depending on whose version of the story you’re hearing — one says congressional Republicans were cut out of the negotiations. The other says they declined to participate — the chance for a better deal is just a fortnight away.
America may not be broke just yet, but things aren’t looking bright. Fortunately, the rest of the world’s economy seems to be in worse shape. That buys us some time to reverse the trends threatening to bankrupt the nation.
The first of those, of course, is out-of-control federal spending. It’s been a problem before, but as long as the debt and the annual deficit remained a fraction of the overall gross domestic product, it didn’t threaten to bring the system crashing down. Now, as total debt is equal to or exceeds the total value of all domestic production, it’s time for everyone to understand that the party’s over.
The Democrats who run Congress seem intent on spending us into oblivion. Why are Mr. McConnell and most of the other Senate Republicans going along when they should join Rep. Kevin McCarthy — the man most people expect to be the next speaker of the House come January — in saying not just “No” but “Hell, no!” to a very bad deal?
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Does National Review still support him?
It’s one heck of a big payoff for the incumbents, that’s all they care about.
The Washington Times Editorial Board: Will Mitch McConnell join the spending Democrats?
What’s the real question??
Please… republicans lead the charge on sending how man covid decks to stay closed and stay home. The uniparty must spend to keep California and other ble states open.
The only solution for this problem is a quite a few horses and a lot of rope, followed by term limits.
Can you please parse that out?
McConnell IS a spending democrap...
I couldn’t follow the language of post 6.
Is that a trick question? That is like asking if Romney will vote with the Dems.
Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Tim Scott, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lindsey Graham.
Card carrying members of the uni-party.
Of course he will.
I’m surprised by Tim Scott.
Good question; but, after over 30-years of subscribing to NR, I refused to renew and can't tell you for certain.
My guess is NR is happily supporting Mitch, just as they praised Lizzy Cheney, Adam Kinsinger, and their hero, Mittens Romney.
NR spent over 5-years bashing everything Trump did or tried to do.
NR is the rag of the establishment GOP.
McConnell has been a rino since the Chinese bankrolled him.
He’s already in with them.
Join? When did he leave them?
Just a continuation of 60 years of the feckless-GOP circle jerk...
In the majority or not, it has never been different from a pure surrender-to-the-communists disaster, except for just one (1) congress (Newt's House) since the 1950s...
No sense worrying about it anymore... It's all over for any sort of return to Constitutionally protected freedoms and liberties...
There is no going back via the ballot box...
On the optimistic side of this situation, according to Ronald Reagan, we only have to endure this dark tyranny for another 998 years...
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