Frankly, I’m getting really pissed off. I was reading somewhere how it is that several ‘conservative’ Senate Republicans have now swung their support behind what some have described as being a bipartisan budget bill. What it really is, is a Democrat/RINO bill, and hardly bipartisan. And now with the support of these so-called ‘conservative’ Republicans there was enough momentum to win a pivotal test, 67-33, in the Senate over what was described as being the rather passive resistance of top Republican leaders. If I understand things correctly, apparently there were more than enough RINOs to successfully advance the measure over the filibuster threshold demanded by Republican leaders, and on to the vote scheduled for tomorrow. And just as I figured, ‘Dingy Harry’ had little trouble in getting the RINOs that he needed.
After all, it was as recent as this past Monday that we heard from Sen. Orrin Hatch, Johnny Isakson, Saxby Chambliss, as well as a strong hint by John Hoeven, as all indicated that they would be backing the measure. And with that it appeared to seal enough Republican support to advance the measure to Barry’s desk. Sen. Ron Johnson, whose home-state GOP colleague, Paul Ryan, was a top negotiator on the bill, swung behind it on Sunday. Other RINOs, like Arizona Republicans John McCain and Jeff Flake, said last week they would be only too glad to help advance the bill. So all of these so-called ‘conservatives’ were only too happy to go along with this legislation which contains a measure that screws over our military veterans while unionized public employees were allowed to escape essentially unscathed.
One does not need to be a rocket scientist to be able to understand why it is the Democrats are so much in favor of this bill. The measure would essentially gut the harshest cuts to agency budgets required under automatic spending curbs known as sequestration, a Democrat idea that they have long sought a way to get rid of. It would replace $45 Billion in scheduled cuts for the 2014 budget year already under way, lifting agency budgets to a little more than $1 Trillion, and essentially freeze spending at those levels for 2015. It substitutes other spending cuts and new fees to replace the automatic cuts and devotes a very modest $23 Billion to reducing the deficit over the next 10 years or $2.3 Billion per year. In other words, when it comes to cutting spending, it’s little more than a joke.
So thanks in large part to these RINOs, ‘Dingy Harry’ succeeded in advancing the budget bill today, with a vote to send the House-passed measure to Barry "Almighty" scheduled for Wednesday. And in what was really nothing more than an attempt to make some sort of lame excuse for his being a turncoat, it was Hatch who said, "Sometimes the answer has to be yes," Hatch said. "The reality is that Republicans only control one-half of one-third of government. Ultimately, this agreement upholds the principles conservatives stand for and, with Democrats controlling the White House and the Senate, it is the best we could hope for." I would beg to differ with the good senator. This bill comes nowhere near to upholding conservative principles. And the fact that he can even make such an idiotic claim is laughable.
And there were several instances where we had some frauds who, being up for re-election in 2014, were attempting to do nothing more than to burnish their non-existent conservative credentials as they face Tea Party-backed challengers back home. One such pathetic fraud happens to be the Senate's No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, who announced his opposition Monday morning on his campaign's website. However it would seem that that was a step that his Senate office was unwilling to take. And strangely enough, it was later deleted from the site once reporters from The Associated Press asked for confirmation of a Cornyn quote that appeared on the conservative Internet site Breitbart.com. In other words, the good senator from Texas, being the RINO that he is, was simply trying to have it both ways.
Look, there continues to be any number of people, from both parties, busily running around and telling anyone who will listen that this bill is far from being perfect. And there are some Republicans, but to few in number to matter as it turns out, who are describing it as the joke that it really is. And Boehner’s temper tantrum notwithstanding, this bill is essentially nothing more than yet another piece of bogus legislation that accomplishes absolutely nothing more than to kick the can a little further down the road. It eases $63 Billion in scheduled spending cuts over the next two years and replaces them with longer-term savings measured over 10 years, many of which don't accumulate until 2022-23. Deficits would increase by $23.2 Billion in 2014 and by $18.2 Billion the year after that.
If it does anything, this bill should make it more obvious than ever that the American people now have no one on their side. We have no other option than to be forced to swallow this thing. The majority of politicians, from both parties, are going to vote how they see fit, not in way that their constituents would like them to, nor in a way that would be best for addressing the dire financial straits that this country now finds itself. And what it does for us on the right is make it all the more plain that we have a growing number of self-professed conservatives who now need to be flushed from their cushy jobs. And those up for re-election must be forced to at least complete in a primary against candidates who more closely align themselves with conservative positions on such things as spending, immigration, abortion and marriage.
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