by Don Surber:
Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden brought the nation together with their compromise on raising the national credit limit. Just about everyone hates it.
The left is upset because there will be $136 billion in spending cuts in the next two years. The right is upset because that is only 1.7% of the money that will be spent. Right now, for every dollar Washington takes in taxes, it spends two.
Republicans agreed to suspend the limit — allow the government to borrow whatever the deep state wants — until after the 2024 election.
“In exchange for suspending the limit, Republicans demanded a range of policy concessions from Mr. Biden. Chief among them are limits on the growth of federal discretionary spending over the next two years. Mr. Biden also agreed to some new work requirements for certain recipients of food stamps and the Temporary Aid for Needy Families program.
“Both sides agreed to modest efforts meant to accelerate the permitting of some energy projects — and, in a surprise move, a fast track to construction for a new natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia that has been championed by Republican lawmakers and a key centrist Democrat.”
That pipeline is nice but it does nothing to stop the spending spree. Ending Medicare and Medicaid funding of transsexual surgery would save money but obviously there is no one in Washington willing to call the trannies out. My guess is Speaker McCarthy still stocks Bud Light because the company is a major donor to his party.
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joined a group of congressional conservatives who are ripping a new deal to raise the debt limit and curb spending for two years – saying it keeps the nation on a path toward bankruptcy.
“DeSantis, who last week formally announced his campaign for the White House, weighed in two days after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the deal, which would suspend the federal debt limit through January 2025.
“Asked for his assessment, DeSantis told Fox News: ‘Well, prior to this deal . . . our country was careening towards bankruptcy. And after this deal our country will still be careening towards bankruptcy. And to say you can do $4 trillion of increases in the next year and a half, I mean, that’s a massive amount of spending.’”
Bizarre. We give the government trillions a year and it still isn’t enough to feed the beast.
“Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts. Deal will increase mandatory spending 5%, increase military spending 3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels. No real cuts to see here.
“Conservatives have been sold out once again!”
AOC is upset as well because the spending is slowing down. Oh no!
“We let government grow, but at a slower rate.”
Nearly 30 years ago, Newt said the same thing.
He defended this compromise.
“The agreement reached Saturday night between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden is an historic first step toward shifting government back toward common sense and conservatism.
“It is a step toward creating a smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, economic growth, prosperity, and more take home pay. All of this will also strengthen Social Security and Medicare.
“I emphasize it’s a first step because that is what I lived through in 1995 in our first year as a Republican House majority (the first in 40 years). Step by step, we got budget changes, moved from welfare to work, cut taxes, and reduced bureaucratic regulatory overkill. We launched a generation of prosperity built upon the foundations that President Ronald Reagan created in the 1980s.”
The parallel is genuine but Newt had a better hand. Not only did he hold the House but Republicans held the Senate as well. He also played his hand better by letting the government shut down, and even that led to the Lewinsky scandal.
Eventually — with the help of a little smoke and mirrors — we balanced the budget.
So now I am supposed to bore readers by Surb-splainin why the compromise is so groovy and to show off my knowledge by reminding readers that compromise got us our bicameral Congress and Electoral College at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
I won’t because compromise now sucks. Clinton and Newt held power in a time before Pelosi. Reid and Obama dragged disrespect and scorn into politics. They are as graceful as a drunken donkey.
Their hardball approach to politics is anathema to good governance. Theirs is a mobocracy where a majority of just one allows a ruling party to ignore the opposition, the Constitution, decency, and common sense by doing whatever they want wherever they want at whenever they want.
Therein lies the problem with defending this compromise because it is the only time Democrats have sought our counsel.
Where was the compromise on vaccine mandates? A Democrat Congress and a Democrat president ran roughshod over the Constitution as well as the practice of medicine by requiring people to take an experimental shot that was definitely not a vaccine as advertised.
The shot should have been limited to people at the highest risk of croaking from covid. I got my shots but I advised readers to make their own decision. That should have been federal policy but Biden is a bribed jerk who dreams of being the American Mussolini.
Where was the compromise on Obamacare? Democrats passed it with no input from Republicans or the public.
It sucks because the Republicans only have a majority in the House.
It has no spending caps. It has been scored and will put the national debt at 50 trillion in ten years. It is totally unsustainable.
Hey if McConnel and SAchumer both endorse it you know it sucks like Obama.
Still think there are two opposing political parties in the US?
Then you’re a fool.
The vote numbers tell me or anyone else all that we would need to know. This was not the Republican bill that passed the house 218-0 democrats. Now there are more democrats supporting this bill than Republicans.
OH yea, there are two opposing parties: Us and Them.
For more than a quarter century, Republicans have allowed the Democrats to define who they are and control the narrative. The United States is not a functioning constitutional republic, but a government being deliberately transformed into a one-party totalitarian state. It cannot be reformed. It can only be ripped out and replaced.
Do not expect any top-down solutions for America’s problems to miraculously emerge from Washington D.C. The U.S. government has seceded from the people. The United States already has a political aristocracy that sees itself as distinct from the rest of society and as the only element that may act on its behalf. The ruling class considers those who resist it as having no moral or intellectual right or civil rights.
Republican Party leaders neither contest that view nor vilify their Democrat counterparts because they do not want to challenge the ruling class, they want to be part of it. The Republican leadership has solidified its choice to no longer represent what had been its constituency, but to adopt the identity of junior partners in the ruling class. By repeatedly passing bills that contradict the views of its voters.
The majority of Republicans sided with the dems who are Communists. Let that sink in. Now they will fundraise off of it claiming they need to be re-elected in order to combat the fiscally irresponsible dems. And another thing, how can they, with straight faces, hold hearings on the weaponization of government when they just voted to fund the weaponization of government? IF the Republicans manage to hold onto the House in 2024, it’ll only be because they slid in on the coattails of PT or DeSantis. If it were the Midterms, the base would stay at home and they’d lose the House in a repeat of 2018.
The majority of republicans didn’t want to crash the US economy and throw millions of Americans out of work.
Democrats are crashing the economy.
Repeat that lie that this clump of cells is the president of the United States.
It always makes me laugh when you say it, and I laugh even more when you say “there’s no proof” the election was rigged.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-biden-falls-on-stage-at-air-force-academy-graduation-179085381934
That Biden isn’t really President is a right-wing fantasy—one item on a long list.
It’s part of a collective delusional construct conjured up using social media, which has been turned into a highly effective mind control mechanism.
There you go.
Um-hum, coming from the guy who bought into the Steele dossier hook, line and sinker.
Once again, Comrade Greggie proves he’s an idiot.
Idiot with gavel:
That’s just Democrats laughing at the idea there are rules THEY have to abide by. Yeah, that IS a laugh.
Meanwhile, your people make MTG look like a saint.
“Standing up.” That’s cute.
The way the left clumsily ignores the threat to children these degenerates pose only exposes their support for turning children into sexual accessories. Their massive lies about what the opposition is all about makes this clear.
Without social media and control of talk-show hosts, no one would vote Democrat.
And no one would be “trans.”
Mind control…that you’ve lost control of?
Looking that way.
Trump was great on Hannity last night, answering questions for an hour. Idiot Biden can’t answer questions for two minutes. There is no comparison; Trump is a leader, idiot Biden is a caricature of an incompetent puppet.
Biden tells Air Force graduates he applied to the Naval Academy after graduating high school. Last year, he told Naval Academy graduates he was “appointed to the [Naval] Academy in 1965.” There is no record of either of those things ever happening.
Don’t miss the graduate at the back giving the thumbs down!
RNC Research on Twitter: “Biden tells Air Force graduates he applied to the Naval Academy after graduating high school. Last year, he told Naval Academy graduates he was “appointed to the [Naval] Academy in 1965.” There is no record of either of those things ever happening. https://t.co/4PaQuGMNvW” / Twitter
But his crack head son hunter was booted from the navy because he was using and dealing drugs, crack cocaine.
Everyone in congress pretends he is a president, openly mocking us and pretending we are in a democracy. This is surreal. Our own leaders are destroying our society, economy and military more effectively than any enemy could short of nuclear war. For Russia, China and 80 % of the world not in our puppet status, this is very alarming. A nuclear armed, aggressive, unstable, utterly corrupt, ruthless nuclear armed one party regime with a weak and subdued citizenry.
McCarthy is a turncoat. He cannot be trusted. He will do the bidding for democrats. The day is coming when there will be a motion to vacate the chair.
Don is great! Has great sources and presents the facts cleverly. Like Jim Healy at KLAC 60 years ago. “I don’t make this stuff up!”!