Embrace Party Infighting
I know, many of you are cringing because the GOP just won EVERYTHING and now is the time for them to make progress. Why in the world, with all the fighting between the Democrats and Republicans, should we embrace party infighting?
Because that’s what keeps everyone in Congress HONEST.
Just today, Speaker of the House Johnson (Republican) presented a Continuing Resolution to avoid government shut down. The GOP members of the House are trying to ram this through before they break for the Holidays. Not long ago, Speaker Johnson promised a “clean” CR that would make it easy to digest, analyze, and pass.
What was handed to the Representatives was ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN PAGES. Does that sound easy to digest and analyze? I don’t think so either.
Neither does Representative Tuberville (Republican) who expressed his outrage to the press. Representative Mace (Republican) took to social media to express her displeasure with the document. Both of them are taking crap from their fellow party members and being told to get onboard.
I applaud both of them and you should too.
And anyone who is encouraging them to back down and vote pass the CR should be voted out of office. Period.
There is a decent amount of pork in this CR, including funding allocation for RFK Stadium in Washington DC. Does anyone think that needs to be decided RIGHT NOW??? Shouldn’t that wait and be part of the normal budget process when they all come back from holiday recess? There are also allocations in there for infrastructure projects, healthcare, and a PAY RAISE for members of Congress.
Seriously, WTF? You’re telling me that can’t wait until after the holidays???
Speaker Johnson, as we would all hope, is getting some splashback on this to include people already challenging to run against him as Speaker in the coming year. Everyone can see the bullshit in the CR, even though it is over 1,500 pages. And it all looks shady as hell. The last CR was about 21 pages. This one is 1,500 and it is right before the holiday break.
Who else feels like they are watching a used car salesman?
Anyone ever heard of a bait-and-switch? That’s sure what this seems like.
What really happened is Speaker Johnson made a deal with the devil and the devil looks a lot like Senator Schumer over in the Senate. As the leaders of the respective houses of Congress, they made a deal to get the CR passed. That’s how you get pork through.
That’s also how you piss off your party members and the American voter. Americans just gave President Trump and the Republican party a mandate to NOT do what the Democrats have been doing for the last four years. No more sneaky, underhanded bullshit.
And yet here we are.
So, when we, as the American voter, have people like Tommy Tuberville and Nancy Mace holding their party members accountable for their bullshit, that’s when WE WIN as the American voter. We need MORE people like that in Congress. We need more people to run against spineless leaders like Johnson.
When we have that, we get the BEST and MOST HONEST product out of our government. When you expose the bullshit, that’s when it ends. That’s the mandate. That’s what the American public asked for.
I’m not JUST talking about the pork in the CR. The pork in the CR is the result of shitty governmental and Congressional practices for DECADES. Pork only exists because our representatives ALLOW it to continue to pass. Some will hide and say pork is how you “negotiate” in Congress.
No. No. And No again.
Those bad practices are how we waste billions of dollars every year and how our national debt is $36 Trillion. That is why you pay so much in taxes. That is why social security is in danger. The pork that results from those bad practices is going to continue to slowly kill our economy.
Stop the bad practices that become things like pork in the Continuing Resolution. And we end pork by encouraging our elected representatives to NOT vote party line, stop the bullshit, and hold each other accountable for what our taxes are spent on.
That’s what we do. We Embrace Party Infighting.