Posted on 09/24/2016 5:16:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
After voting to proceed to a bill that didnt exist earlier this week, the Senate has finally produced text of the continuing resolution, a short-term government spending bill.
The bill, written behind closed doors by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was brought to the floor late Thursday afternoon, and for the majority of Senate Republicans, represented their first opportunity to see the text. According to McConnell, senators will have four days (two of them on a weekend) to review the bill before having to cast their votes next week.
As far as conservative priorities go, the bill is a failure. Among its many obvious flaws, it funds the government through Dec. 9setting up a lame-duck session of Congress.
In the lame-duck session, which occurs after the election but before new lawmakers are sworn in, unaccountable legislators are likely to pass a bevy of backroom deals, to the detriment of representative democracy (and, we can assume, to the wallets of the taxpayer).
Even though it only funds the government for a scant 69 days, the McConnell continuing resolution manages to do it at the bloated Boehner-Obama spending levels that were jammed down the throats of conservatives in 2015.
In doing so, the continuing resolution sets up yet another spending cliff that will spawn a false panic in the lame-duck session, and lay the groundwork for more must-pass terrible deals. In other words, in December, lawmakers will once more have to pass yet another spending bill in order to ensure the government continues normal operations.
Worse still, this continuing resolution fundamentally grows government. The bill includes $500 million for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to address flooding in Louisianadespite the $12 billion the agency already has.
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Aboslutely right. The people of Kentucky are morons. Pure and simple. What’s even more moronic, is they put Bevin in the governors office. Wondering who was counting the ballots during the Senate race.
Alison Grimes was the lesser evil.
There’s no doubt in my mind that this guy Is corrupt as hell or that his name will be found in the NAMBLA membership list along with a log of his visits and preferences....
I’ve been #NeverMcConnell for several Senate terms now. Our system is in ruins.
It never happens. The guy is entrenched and so is Ryan and so will be the guys that follow. I hope someday there is a mass exodus.
That's like saying Hillary is the lesser evil. That's nonsense!
Wellll when the dems blackmail you over your extra curricular activities (AHEM).......
Alison Grimes would not be Majority Leader.
So you support re-electing him?
Since when does a spending bill originate in the Senate?
We can keep on daydreaming that Trump is going to solve this or wake up to the reality that Article 5 convention of the States is the ONLY way this get solved
No offense, but I have no idea who this “we” are that you say you are daydreaming with.
The Founders never imagined a consolidated national media would arise that could coerce the federal government into subsidizing consumer spending.
A convention is not the *only* way to correct that, but I’m gmae to give it a try.
We are so gone from Federalism the framers built in a protection against an overarching federal government called article 5. 8 states’ legislatures have passed it and 2 more are close. It is picking up steam and it is truly the only way to give the country back to the people; through the States
If there is one thing I have learned about Trump is he HATES spending money!!!
KY people won’t say what they know about McC.
I believe I read that the Kentuckians now wish that they had NOT made Bevin governor.
lol. I knew that last year. Been following him in the news since i was 18 and started going to Manhattan.
Never remember him spending a buck he didn’t have to.
Didn’t want him to spend his own money for the generals. I wouldn’t want to spend mine.
Bloomberg would spend a ton of his own money, and he’s an idiot and has spent a lot of his own money.
Through bloomberg was trough with crime. Go figure.
Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JETS TOMORROW AND TRUMP MONDAY!!!! GET THE RIBS AND THE BROWNIES AND THE BEERS AND THE cannoli and some alfredo sauce for the cavatelli and meatballs and the Cabernet and ... :) :)
This creep is exhibit one.
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