So where's the less expensive, smaller government, deficit busting GOP in DC again? - Granite Grok

So where’s the less expensive, smaller government, deficit busting GOP in DC again?

60 percent of Republican voters feel “betrayed” by the party’s political leadership

They campaigned for getting majorities in the US House (where appropriations and tax bills start) and the US Senate.  They campaigned on smaller Government.  They promised to stop Obama’s expansion of Government.  They railed against piling up more deficit spending.  They promised to turn off the spigot.  So ask me again – WHY do we support Republicans?

The federal budget deficit will rise again this year for the first time in six years, according to a report released Monday by the Congressional Budget Office. Not only is this year’s deficit up by $100 billion, it marks the first time the deficit has grown, relative to the economy, since the Democrats had complete control of Washington. This year’s projected deficit is $544 billion, an increase of $105 billion over last year. As a share of the overall economy, the most meaningful measurement, the deficit has also increased, now equaling 2.9 percent of GDP.

And WHO is in charge right now, huh?

The total debt outstanding has also increased dramatically since last year. Total federal debt owed to the public is now equal to 76 percent of the economy. This is up a staggering two percentage points since last year. This latest report from the CBO goes a long way to explain the insurgent wave now agitating the Republican presidential nomination. Federal spending, with Republicans in complete control of Congress, is now increasing again for the first time since Democrats controlled Congress. Federal debt is also accumulating at a faster pace than when Democrats were in charge.

It isn’t surprising, then, that 60 percent of Republican voters feel “betrayed” by the party’s political leadership. Betrayed is certain a strong sentiment, but its hard to argue against that belief when Congressional Republicans are failing on the one issue that they campaign on most aggressively.  The increase in the deficit, in fact, is not due to some organic spending path that isn’t immune to action by Congress. According to the CBO, the federal deficit would have decreased this year but for the actions by Republicans to pass their omnibus spending bill at the end of last year.

I don’t know.  Every time I see this kind of news, I keep questioning why I keep pulling the lever for this Stupid Party.  The Hope is dying, the Trust is shriveled, and all they keep doing is emulating the Dems. And then they wonder why their base hates them?  They’ve moaned for years about Republican voters staying home on Election Day; they have yet to learn that they have made us not to care.

Stupid.  But who is more stupid – the Party or me for keep voting for them?  They can’t even say they are “less bad” (even as every time they cozy up to the Dem agenda, the Dems keep moving just that further Left knowing they’ve made the Repubs be the latest Stockholm Syndrome victims).

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