Posted on 09/19/2018 8:22:13 AM PDT by Mariner
Weeks before the midterm elections, conservatives in the House are gaining little traction on fiscal issues as Congress passed one spending bill after another in bipartisan votes.
It's a significant shift from the last few years, when the House Freedom Caucus often threw a wrench into appropriations plans with demands to cut mandatory spending and advance other conservative priorities.
“It’s a little bit frustrating right now,” said Rep. Mark Walker, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House.
Walker issued a warning last week that some RSC members may vote against a package of spending bills the House is due to consider when it returns to session. The package includes defense and labor appropriations, and a continuing resolution to keep the parts of the government not yet funded by spending bills running past Oct. 1.
But Walker admits that he and other RSC members opposed to the package would seem to have little hope in blocking it.
The package passed in the Senate on Tuesday in an overwhelming 93-7 vote. In the House, an earlier package of spending bills passed in a 377-20 just last week, with both Democrats and Republicans backing it.
“I don’t know that conservatives have a whole lot of leverage here, so I haven’t given it as much thought as I have given to other things, because most of the Democrats will vote for this and smile very big,” said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
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The concept of taking them out in the primary is a proven loser, and the above is the result.
Many will say this is still better than the alternative, and that's why we have toilet scum elected as Republicans.
This is headed to Trump’s desk. Trump said last time he would never sign such a bill again.
Either we are headed for a government shutdown or Trump is going to destroy his credibility. Coming just before the midterms, neither is good.
We’ve got the world’s reserve currency, a central bank that pushes interest rates to near zero, buys up government debt, and a massive market for the massive debt generated by all this. And plus, all the other major countries and central banks of the world do the exact same thing
Given a massive credit-card they control, the only surprise is that progressive Uniparty politicians haven’t spent even MORE than they have.
They won’t stop this spending if they remain in the majority and no wall will be built.
Voters get endless lip service about 'cutting spending' and then their elected officials increase spending.
Either they never learn or have no intention of keeping their promises.
Either way it's a self-inflicted wound.
Bingo! That’s the excuse every election cycle I like to term the shame game. “Well if you don’t elect the Republican hellfire and brimstone will rain down upon thee.” Screw that and screw the Republican Party. The two are one in the same. I’m also not going to hear or listen to the excuse “but Trump bit Trump.” If it’s not Trump this year it’s anothrr reason and yet another excuse the next election cycle. Rinse and repeat
I am with you. Everyone on the planet will support print-and-spend for as far into the future as any of us can see.
Because they really have no good alternative.
Bravo!
rwood
Veto the damned thing.
Shut down the feeding trough and let them starve.
You are on to something here - if the other nations of the world are going to take our dollars at face value, because what choice do they have, these nitwits are going to keep spending and printing money. My whole life I've been told the debt is going to crush us, but under the environment the world economy operates under now it doesn't look likely. I think this is what the deep state learned about 20 years ago.
If rational economics were going to cause our collapse it would have happened by now. We are beyond the point of rationality.
That’s good to know.
Which Republican have u helped unelect? Just name one
I’ll put my money on “Trump is going to destroy his credibility,” and his sycophants here and elsewhere will accept and excuse it. Instead they should unleash their fury on him and make him live up to his own rhetoric. Yeah, that’s gonna happen. He knows he has no accountability to his core supporters who will accept absolutely anything he does as long as he is not Hitlery Xlintoon.
Bush League Republicans must become extinct if the Republic is to survive.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
This is why patriots need to wake state lawmakers up to the major constitutional problem that the feds are stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the fed’s cannot justify under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Since the Founding States had decided not to give the power to vote for federal senators to ordinary voters, the remedy is to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16&17A).
After 16&17A are gone, then the House can make as many unconstitutional appropriations bills as it wants to since the Senate will once again protect the states by vetoing such bills.
I helped Cantorize the weasel Eric Cantoe.
It can be done.
In America machines, computers, robots, and foreign born bio-robots now do most of the work and create most of the wealth. This is even more so for country conservatives than city slicker socialists. We don’t really pay most of the taxes anymore, the machines do. Maybe fiscal conservatism is declining in importance.
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