When exactly did you say this happened? Republicans and the deficit, a brief not sure what.

 

I read an opinion piece by W. James Antle, III from the Washington Examiner who states that the Republicans that ousted McCarthy as Speaker have valid points that we need better control over spending and returning to regular order in the House. I am totally for this proposal, however his claim that these Republicans, both the people who ousted McCarthy and the conservatives in the Party are the ones to move this forward is more than a bit outlandish. Mr. Antle goes on to state that the people that ousted McCarthy did so because we need to pass the fourteen individual appropriation measures. And yes I agree this would be a better way to fund the government since and he addresses it in his piece, the measures could be read in advanced, debated, amendments proposed and everyone knows what they are voting for or against.

First question; the House knew they wanted this in January when they elected McCarthy so why didn’t they start work then? Second question, when have the Republicans ever done this?

In 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 the Republicans had the Presidency, Senate and House, what happened those years. This was the era when big business was ruling the roost in the Republican party so tax breaks and heavy military spending was the main goal, yet if they really wanted to create the appropriation measures they certainly were in a place to do such.

In 2016 and 2017 during Trump’s term the Republicans held the House and Senate, yet did we have the appropriation measures Mr. Antle states the Republicans were all for when they elected McCarthy as speaker. Why didn’t they produce a full budget at that time?

And currently since Republican politicians today are remnants of the big business era and a large band of how can I get Donald Trump to like me it isn’t difficult to figure out why they couldn’t create the appropriation measures in the first place. Yet, Mr. Antle is all puppy dog in love with his argument the Republicans should listen to the people who ousted McCarthy and make sure the new Speaker makes the appropriation measures a priority. Is he kidding us?

Neither the Democrats or Republicans have any interest in actually producing a budget or one would have been completed years ago. They blame each other of course. And overall both parties struggle to even come up with constructive public policy. Well, every now and then something does get passed that resembles an idea, but since the current Republicans prefer Donald Trump’s one liners as public policy and the Democrats spend way too much time trying to make everyone happy and spend money to try and do such what do we expect. I agree there are marginalized people, disenfranchised people, rights of certain groups are stepped on, but the Democrats never address this constructively, yet find ways to make platitude speeches with no real concrete improvements for these people. We get inordinate amounts of money spent with very little actually going to poor people, but we receive platform after platform each election telling us how bad we are that we don’t do more. Well do more, but we have had Democrats in charge of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency and do you see significant tax breaks for the working and middle class passed, real health care reform, not the insurance overall of Obama, Social Security improved, and even them passing appropriation measures.

Neither party has a clue as to legislating, yet both parties are great at blaming each other for the ongoing troubles our country faces.

Today though was a bit much. Mr. Antle appears somewhat young via the picture I saw when I internet searched who he was after reading his opinion piece. And yes it is only an opinion piece not someone positing a plan to be implemented as if he was in Congress. Yet to say, the current Republican party can actually implement this wonderous dream that the House or even the Senate actually produce a responsible well thought out budget that can be reviewed, addressed and voted on is beyond the pale. They had their chance starting in January, yet spent more time waving at Mr. Trump to get his attention than doing anything else. And then at the last minute their fearless leader wanted them to shut the government down unless they got all they wanted. Great way to manage our country there Mr. I want to be President again. How does this make me trust anything the Republican Party does.

I am an independent conservative and have been for decades and it is articles like this that just reinforce my desire to stay such.