Posted on 09/24/2016 5:16:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
After voting to proceed to a bill that didn’t 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. 9—setting 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 Louisiana—despite the $12 billion the agency already has.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
PING!
Quelle surprise. Let Kentucky hang its collective head in shame.
TOO MANY STATES gave primaries to GOPe!!!
Have to turn the federal grass roots thing into a state grass roots thing.
We get Trump in, he stumps for REAL conservatives!!!!
It's only worth about 10 seconds of review.
If the kick the can down the road action is not past the swearing in of the next Congress, it's a CRIME. I hope the Senate goes to the 'Rats.
Did we really expect anything else???
Kentucky, you guys have got to wise up...
This headline is a lie. McConnell has no principles.
Make that ‘conservative priorities’
He doesn’t have principles either.
Going to be a LOT of power struggles with an outsider in the WH. I support real change.
Disengage from the keyboard Pal
Remember, the only thing we disagree on is strategy... Or at least that’s what the rinos want us to believe.
Turtle? Is that you?
Strategery bows to the re-election Tactics...
Is anyone surprised.
EXEMPT McConnell leads the arming of al Qaeda
and IRS coverup for the GOP,
arm in arm with McCain and Obama.
I could rant and rave.
But I will just say this.
This is the kind of crap that propelled Trump to the nomination and
will sweep him into the White House.
Yet we are reminded daily that Trump is not a Conservative and that Ryan and McConnell are defending Conservative principles.
If this is true, I hereby resign as a Conservative. Secessionist will do just fine. I want no part of the den of liars, thieves and perverts in the stinking morass of Versailles on the Potomac.
The sooner we can kick that jackass out of Congress the better.
So GOPe is going to ignore the will of the voters and give Obama the money required to give away the Internet to foreign interests?
Traitors. The last decade has been pretty much nothing but betrayal of Americans by their government.
I hope I live to see the day that sell-out Democrats AND Republicans hang for their high crimes.
Our federal government is full of thieves and murderers running it like an organized criminal enterprise.
lol
Media says: “If the government shuts down it’s the Republican’s fault- no matter what.”
Mitch and Ryan: “OK!”
This is one reason Trump is so admired. He will fight tooth and nail to tear that lie down.
Not that I expect him to do *much* about spending amounts: the establishment wants that spending to grow.
But he can bring the problem to the fore, and maybe adhust where it’s going some.
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