The GOP again gives us a reason for "not a dime's worth of difference" - Granite Grok

The GOP again gives us a reason for “not a dime’s worth of difference”

Or, why do we think there there is only a Fusion Party?  Because they act no differently than the Democrats when they don’t think we’re looking.  Take the appropriations for the Office of Civil Affairs and its meddling over transgenderism by its own re-manufacturing of law and definition replacing the meaning of what was passed originally by Congress (emphasis mine, reformatted) and the Republicans didn’t stomp on its brakes – they mashed its accelerator down (“very generous budget increase last year”) in “fundamentally transforming” traditional mores:

…OCR is perhaps the most left-wing office in the federal bureaucracy. Bankrolling it that way Congress did was an egregious error (for which they were rewarded with the transgender guidance). This would be understandable if Congress were in the hands of the Democratic Party. As Republicans rule the roost, however, this seriously discredits congressional Republicans.

And it is actions like this have the Republican asking “what good are they???”

Fund puts it this way: “If Republicans in Congress wonder why so many conservatives are frustrated with them, here is one reason: GOP lawmakers generously fund the Obama administration’s most out-of-control elements while slapping down the conservatives who try to warn them away from such misjudgments.”

And then they wonder why the base rebelled by voting for Trump? They keep forgetting that “burn it all down” is a viable political phrase. And that only exists because they keep showing us why we can’t Trust them.

Who raised the red flag in this case? Fund notes that Civil Rights Commissioners Peter Kirsanow and Gail Heriot wrote a letter last year to Appropriations Committee chairmen warning them against giving OCR a huge budget increase. They protested the budget increase as a bad, bad idea. The Appropriations Committee chairmen not only approved they (sic) OCR budget increase, however, they also slapped Kirsanow and Heriot down by including a line in the Commission’s budget commanding us not to send them letters on Commission letterhead.

Kirsanow and Heriot had committed the ancient offense of lèse majesté. Forgive them, your highnesses.

This year the Senate bill again gives OCR a raise.

All the high-falutin’ language to the contrary, judge them by their actions. And vote accordingly and give them no more credence to the “But the Democrats will win!” – go ahead, tell me the difference.

Sure, I keep hearing from The Establishment that the GOP should get out of the social issues and concentrate just on fiscal ones (right, Doug Scammon?).  So what are we to think when they not only ignore their own stance but actually HELP the Democrats in changing our public morality?

And once again, the Republicans prove my meme of “ALL social issues have fiscal costs” and it is clear that their mantra of less spending is worth nothing.  Nothing at all.

In this, they have attacked their own base.

What will you do?

(H/T: Powerline)

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