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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThe dream of Carroll Quigley has come true. We have reached the point where it does no good to simply ‘throw the rascals out.’ We tried that in 2016, and nothing has changed. On Sunday night, Republicans and Democrats in Congress put together a spending bill that would fund the government through September. It is truly a bad bill that does not respect the wishes of the voters in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
Fox News<\/a> reported today:<\/p>\n The proposed legislation has no funding for Trump\u2019s oft-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a>, but does set aside $1.5 billion for border security measures such as additional detention beds. It does give Trump a $12.5 billion down payment on his request to strengthen the military, a figure which could rise to $15 billion should Trump present Congress with a plan for fighting the Islamic State terror group. The proposed $15 billion amounts to half of Trump’s original $30 billion request.<\/strong><\/p>\n …The House and Senate have until 11:59 p.m. Friday to approve the bill, which would avert a government shutdown. If passed, the catchall spending bill would be the first major piece of bipartisan legislation to advance during Trump’s short tenure in the White House<\/a>. The measure is assured of winning bipartisan support in votes this week, but it’s unclear how much support the measure will receive from GOP<\/a> conservatives and how warmly it will be received by the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n Democratic votes will be needed to pass the measure even though Republicans control both the White House and Congress. The minority party has been actively involved in the talks, which appear headed to produce a lowest common denominator measure that won’t look too much different than the deal that could have been struck on Obama’s watch last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n Breitbart<\/a> posted an article today quoting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the vice chairman of the House Freedom Caucus<\/a>:<\/p>\n Jordan argued the entire point of doing a short-term spending bill last year was to get the government through until the next administration took office. Then, he explained Republicans in a GOP-controlled federal government would have the opportunity to fight for their priorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhy did we last fall do a short-term spending bill if we weren\u2019t going to actually fight for the things we told the voters we were going to fight for?\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019d have been, I mean if this is the deal we\u2019re going to get it seems to me we should have just did the bill for the whole year. But we specifically held the vote for; we did a short-term spending bill for this time so that when Republicans controlled the government, we could actually do the things we campaigned on. This bill doesn\u2019t seem to do that. Plus it maintains Chris this idea that for every new dollar you spend in defense money you\u2019ve got to give the Democrats more money in non-defense. That\u2019s again not what we campaigned on. So I\u2019m disappointed. We\u2019ll see how it plays out this week. But I think you\u2019re going to see conservatives have some real concerns with this legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n We might want to remember that the first rule of Saul Alinsky<\/a>‘s Rules for Radicals is:<\/p>\n “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources \u2013 money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.<\/strong><\/p>\n Part of the problem here is that the Democrats have convinced the Republicans that if the Democrats shut down the government, the Republicans will somehow be blamed for the shutdown. Because of the mainstream media’s support of the Democrats, that is the way it will be spun, but many Americans are looking past the spin.<\/p>\n This budget bill is a major mistake for Congressional Republicans. They need to look at the votes lost by the Democratic Party<\/a> in elections over the past decade and understand that if the Republican Party continues in the direction they seem to be currently going, they will also lose voters. If the Republicans ignore the results of the 2016 election and the popularity of Donald Trump because he stood for change, there will be a successful third party within a decade.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are here: \u201cThe argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two … Continue reading