Ya know, it was really a very simple task that
President Trump had laying before him back on January 20, 2017. To keep the promises that he had made to the
American people who chose to support him and who voted for him. What could be easier than that? But once again those of us on the right have
been made to deal with yet another disappointment. Promises made should be promises kept, but I
guess that’s simply too much to expect from a politician, even one new to the ‘profession.’
And the source of my most recent bout of frustration
comes by way of this latest spending boondoggle, this RINO/Democrat
collaboration that does absolutely nothing to make good on the promises made to
those who voted for Trump. But it does
provide funding for Planned Parenthood and blocks penalties for Sanctuary
Cities. This pork-riddled bill forks over half a billion dollars to build a
tunnel for Chuckie Schumer yet fails to provide one dollar for a border wall
along our porous southern border.
And it is this same bill that also does NOT include the
necessary language that would allow for carrying concealed weapons across state
lines, which was yet another promise made but apparently not worthy of being kept. And hidden deep in the over 2,000 pages of
this monstrosity is buried a little section on school safety which actually prohibits
money from being used for guns and gun training. In other words, there are zero funds allotted
for arming teachers or school resource officers.
So when all was said and done it’s the Democrats who
got nearly EVERYTHING that they were wanting while those of us who supported,
and have continued to support, President Trump got next to nothing. And while I held out hope that the president
would veto this abomination, even he too took the easy way out. So, so much for running the country like a
business, which is what I thought I was voting for. Once again, the more things change, the more
they seem to stay the same.
This bill should be seen as being completely unacceptable
and conservatives should be outraged.
It’s nothing more than a continuation of the status quo that has
infuriated conservative voters all across the country and for longer than I
care to remember. Republicans in Congress
should be championing tax reform, cutting stifling regulations and getting the
federal government out of the way of job creators. Instead, they seem interested only in coming
up with more effective ways to lose in November.
We’ve all heard the many excuses regarding why this
bill came out the way it did. You know,
how it’s all because the Republicans hold just the slimmest of majorities in
both houses of Congress and how the Republicans had to give a little in order to
get a little. And that would be fine if
they had only given a little. As I have
said before, it’s almost as if the Republicans are doing all that they can to
ensure that come this November they will lose, and in rather spectacular
fashion, to the Democrats.
So where do we conservatives go from here? Do we just suck it up and deal with it like
we’ve been forced to do so many times before?
If I suck it up anymore my bellybutton will pop out my backside. I had such high hopes for President Trump. I thought finally here was a presidential
candidate who thinks the way I do. And
yet I find myself feeling more than a little betrayed. I, like millions of others, listened to candidate
Trump. What we heard, or thought we
heard, was a man who cared.
And I think that there is now very high probability
that this bill will turn out to be somewhat of a unifying force that may result
in keeping conservatives, like myself, home this November. And who can blame them? Since first being able to vote, I have NEVER
not voted. But I too am beginning to
wonder, what’s the point? Conservatives are
tired of getting screwed just as they are tired of voting for Republicans and
getting Democrats and tired of being lied to by those whom they elect.
Year after year these RINOs run for office promising
to stand with the people, then, once elected they continually vote with the Democrats.
I remember the promises of “give us the
majority in Congress and we will get rid of Obamacare and stop the flood of
illegals.” Well, we gave them the House
and got nothing. Then we gave them the
House and the Senate, and we still got nothing.
And then we gave them the House, the Senate and the White House and here
we are, still with a whole lot of nothing.
In all likelihood it’s too late to do anything
regarding the next election. ‘The Swamp’
has been very successful in essentially running out the clock. To the point where the election is now less
than eight months away and our chances of being able to come up with viable
conservative primary candidates gets just that much slimmer with each passing
day. I envision the Democrats taking
back control of Congress come this November with impeachment hearings beginning
by the end of January.
And President Trump could have so very easily
averted all of this by simply choosing to veto this horrible bill. And though he did threaten to veto it, in the
end he did what I’m sure he intended to do all along, and that was to sign the
bill. And he only proceeded to make
matters worse when he tried to justify the act.
People were expecting a fighter when they elected Trump, but a fighter
would have vetoed the bill and sent it right back to Congress so fast RINO heads
would have been spinning.
No comments:
Post a Comment