Let me see if I have this straight:
Congress just voted to add $3 trillion to the debt within a year so that Congress and Obama can spend even more money we don’t have later, and we’re supposed to be happy over that the pandering politicians (who are backslapping each other in having shown great courage to enable themselves to spend even more) can just keep doing what they’ve been doing for decades?
That is, they spend other peoples money, often resulting in much duplication, waste, and fraud, and then they campaign that they will stop the duplication, waste, and fraud? All the while knowing what their real purpose is to merely get re-elected to do it all over again?
It’s like they’ve locked themselves into a party bus, blackened all the windows (including the front windshield), and in their self-assured incompetence, continue hurtling to the precipice, and still want us to love them as it is our kids and grandkids that are strapped to the roof that will have to pay for it all?
And trust me, they will pay, in one fashion or another.
And I am supposed to be overjoyed that:
Once again, these charlatans have voted to not carry out the job we have elected them to do – which was READ THE FREAKING BILL!
Once again, we are hearing echoes "We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it" – and thanks to the slovenly way that they refused to take the time to do it right (was stalling the process until it was way too late a feature, a bug, or a deliberate act of public stupidity)? They must be freaking great magicians or the living embodiment of The Midas Touch (you know, everything they touch turns into a rusty muffler?) because what seems to be there at the end of the vote is transmogrified into something different. That’s because they refused to do the public hearings, the markups, the debates, the re-writes to get it right. Instead, we get slap-dash and NOW, like Obamacare, like Dodd-Frank, and these other thousand page bills, the really terrifying and liberty destroying parts come out into public. Unlike Barnabas Collins, they just keep going seeking more and more victims.
And we’re supposed to turn a blind eye that:
Congressional politicians have created yet another entity, a "Super Congress" above and beyond the reach of the Constitution as plainly written? That the House and the Senate will not debate what the results of this super duper Gang of 12 – they can only vote up or down.
Congrats, guys, once again you are empowering the Progressive ideal of a bureaucratic entity that is beyond the reach of the voters for oversight and accountability. Trust us, they say, we’re the experts – after all, we have $15 Trillion worth of experience! Trust me, this is not a feature to most of us.
And let’s pile on:
ONCE AGAIN, like Obamacare, you chuckleheads are "deeming" not ONE year’s budget but TWO years budgets. It wasn’t bad enough for you that the Senate (dominated by the Democrats) REFUSED to do the work they were elected to do – create a budget, debate it, and vote to pass it. Instead, you wusses, you walked away blithering and drooling into your respective corners, whining and complaining about everything except your own failure to do what was necessary.
And you just did it again. Which shows us you’re either unwilling or unable to do the job. At $175K each, in the private sector, you’d be on the receiving end of Obama’s funemployment policies; perhaps we should help that along.
So instead of not having a budget the last two years, we’re gonna have the great fortune of not having a formal budget for 4 years (not until 2013 – how conVENient not having to debate such during campaign season – exACTLY what Obama wanted!)?
Bottom line: because of the absolute nonsense of doing baseline budgeting (take this year’s budget, preen a bit, mosh a bit, and spit out a budget that is just like the old one – just larger. OH yeah, and if someone tries to cut the higher number, even if it is STILL more money than the original budget, call them cold – hearted, flint skinned, and callous because people are GONNA DIE!
Yes, "cutting" has finally ended up into the active lexicon in DC. Perhaps the boat has been turned 180 degrees from a complete Progressive spend direction to more of a frugal one, but even as the bow is headed right, the stern is still leading. Until that propeller starts to move the bow forward, this battle, for a more limited government where people take more responsibility for themselves instead of outsourcing it to the Progressive State, will continue.
Ranting will continue until my morale picks up.
