Rand Paul’s speech on the Senate floor has annoyed many Republicans, and caused a brief shutdown. Perhaps these Republicans should have listened to the speech
(Real Clear Politics) When the Democrats are in power, Republicans appear to be the conservative party. But when Republicans are in power, it seems there is no conservative party.
You see, opposition seems to bring people together, and they know what they’re not for. But then they get in power and they decide, we’re just going to spend that money too. We’re going to send that money to our friends this time. (snip)
The dirty little secret is that, by and large, both parties don’t care about the debt.
The spending bill is 700 pages, and there will be no amendments.
The debate, although it’s somewhat inside baseball that we’re having here, is over me having a 15-minute debate. And they say, ‘Woe is me! If you get one, everybody will want an amendment.’
Well, that would be called debate.
That would be called an open process.
That would be called concern for your country, enough to take a few minutes.
And they’re like, ‘But it’s Thursday, and we like to be on vacation on Fridays.’
And so they clamor. We’ve been sitting around all day. It’s not like we’ve had 100 amendments today, we’re all worn out and can’t do one more. We’re going to have zero amendments. Zero, goose egg, no amendments.
There’s lots more to this. Click over to the RCP article to read it all, and there is video. You can see why Republicans would be upset, because Senator Paul was simply telling the truth, and roasting Republicans for this spending. That spending bill is 700 pages long?
(The Hill) The House approved a sweeping budget deal early Friday morning that would fund the government through March 23, sending legislation to President Trump that would end a brief shutdown of the government that began at midnight.
That’s right, a 700 page spending bill, which spends lots and lot, and only goes through March 23. Supposedly we’ll see a real budget by then
The bill will fund the government until March 23, which will give lawmakers time to write an omnibus spending bill for the rest of the fiscal year and break the pattern of gridlock that has led to five temporary funding patches since September.
We can’t depend on Republicans to reign in spending. Sure, it’ll be a bit better than if Democrats were in charge, but not much.
