Friday, December 12, 2014

Back to Boehner...



John Hayward writing in Human Events...

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Money is once more flowing out of Congress to all manner of follies and outrages, thanks to an omnibus spending bill that funds everything except Homeland Security through September of 2015 – throwing away every scrap of leverage the incoming Republican majority could possibly exercise against Emperor Obama, ensuring that no one outside the authors of Democrat Party fundraising email spam will be talking about shutdowns, and effectively neutering freshly-elected conservatives.

* ...AND EFFECTIVELY NEUTERING FRESHLY-ELECTED CONSERVATIVES.

* TRUE CONSERVATIVES HAVE TWO... NO, MAKE THAT THREE... CHOICES COME JANUARY: 1) TOPPLE BOEHNER AND HIS CREW; 2) LEAVE THE GOP IN MASS AND START A NEW PARTY; 3) STICK WITH BOEHNER AND SIGN THE DEATH WARRANT OF THE GOP WITH WHILE BUILDING NOTHING IN ITS STEAD TO STAND AGAINST THE LEFT AND SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION.

* IT REALLY DOES COME DOWN TO THOSE THREE CHOICES, FOLKS.

Americans with some vague memory of how the system is supposed to work might be wondering what happened to the sober deliberation of budgets, the careful spending of every dollar, and even the basic rules of accounting. Welcome to the new millennium, old-timers! 

We don’t do things that way anymore. Government by perpetual crisis is so much more exciting, and lucrative for the Ruling Class. Now we wait until the hands of the fiscal doomsday clock stand at one minute to midnight, and the political class has to fund everything with “emergency spending bills,” scribbled in blind haste and posted on glitchy websites for public review in a half-hearted ritual of “transparency.” 

We live in the shadow of the cromnibus, an appropriately clunky word that combines “continuing resolution” emergency tactics with “omnibus spending” irresponsibility. The Cromnibus is a flabby beast with a gaping maw and many tentacles to feed itself... but it lacks eyes, ears, and a frontal lobe.

* I PREDICT ASSASSINATIONS IN 2015. ASSASSINATIONS AND VIOLENCE - VIOLENCE FROM "WE THE PEOPLE" DIRECTED AGAINST GOVERNMENT FORCES.

Anyone who raises the slightest objection to this panicky spending bonanza is denounced as a penny-pinching extremist monster who just wants to kill children, puppies, and kittens for fun by shutting down the government that keeps them alive. You don’t want Obama to throw up barricades around your national parks and memorials again, do you? No? Then shut up and spend!

* I FEAR KILLING THESE PEOPLE IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THEM...

The sole reservation in the winder spending festival is the Department of Homeland Security – which, as Fox News explains, is only funded through February, so the GOP leadership can pretend it’s going to stage a huge fight over Obama’s illegal amnesty orders next year. This is supposed to mollify the starchy citizens who still care about antiquated notions like the rule of law, the separation of powers, the value of citizenship, and national security long enough for the Establishment to enjoy its holiday vacation.

* I HATE BOEHNER WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING.

* AND, NO... FOR THE RECORD... I'M NEITHER "THREATENING" BOEHNER NOR CALLING UPON OTHERS TO BREAK THE LAW IN ANY WAY.

Boehner's bill finances the day-to-day operations of every Cabinet department except Homeland Security through Sept. 30, 2015, with $521 billion for defense and $492 billion tied to non-defense.

Another $64 billion is provided for overseas military operations.

* THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD...

Let’s have a big round of applause for the GOP Establishment, ladies and gentlemen! They managed to throw away the most remarkable electoral victory in a generation in only one month...

* DIE... BOEHNER... DIE...

* DIE... BOEHNER... DIE...

* DIE... BOEHNER... DIE...

There was no reason to give the defeated Democrats anything except a stop-gap bill to fund the government through January, at which point the incoming Republican majorities should have exercised control over everything. 

* E*X*A*C*T*L*Y...!!!

* FOLKS... BOEHNER IS LITERALLY A TRAITOR! AS LEADER OF THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE HE'S GIVEN ALL THE POWER TO OBAMA, PELOSI, REID, AND THE DEMOCRATS! (AND YET... THE REPUBLICAN RANK AND FILE WILL NO DOUBT RE-ELECT HIM TO THE SPEAKERSHIP!)

* FOLKS... EVERY REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED FOR THE BOEHNER BILL SHOULD BE TARRED, FEATHERED, AND RUN OUT OF OFFICE ON A RAIL!

On the Senate side, conservatives such as Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., could create problems in passing the bill.

* I DON'T SEE HOW... BUT LET'S HOPE AND PRAY!

Why any of these [RINO] leadership strategists think voters will reward them in 2016 after they (a) give the country away to Emperor Obama and his new imported class of super-citizens, and (b) allow the defeated minority party to effectively run Washington for a year, remains a mystery. ... The Republican leadership isn’t just bad at standing up for its principles and fulfilling commitments to its voters. It seems institutionally incapable of understanding, as Democrats do, that power won today must be used to set the stage for tomorrow’s elections. Democrats target constituencies and service them, including constituencies that aren’t actually American citizens while Republicans try to figure out how badly they can get away with disappointing their base while they service a Beltway culture some of them fear, and others profit from.

(*SIGHING WHILE NODDING*)

If the Republican leadership was smart, they’d be looping events such as Jonathan Gruber’s disastrous House testimony into a big-picture assault on arrogant, wasteful government, and reminding the hard-working, rules-obeying American taxpayer how much contempt Democrats hold them in. A proper budget debate right after the holidays would be a great way to do that. 

The Democrats fear nothing more than a sharp Republican Party playing that kind of hardball and appealing directly to the working middle class, which is so comprehensively betrayed by the Democrat philosophy of rewarding its big contributors and powerful special interests at the expense of everyone else. There’s a lot of junk in this “cromnibus” spending bill that could be used to buttress such a case, such as a juicy payoff to outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid’s casino backers… but then, in order for Republican leaders to make hay over such corruption, they’d have to give up their pork and payoffs, and they don’t want that.

* V-IO-LANCE...! V-IO-LANCE...! V-IO-LANCE...! (JUST A CHANT, FBI... JUST EXERCISING MY EVER DWINDLING RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH...)

The only reliable bipartisanship in Washington is the agreement between both parties to serve and protect the permanent system of regulators, appropriators, lobbyists, and Big Media, which have fused together into a single organism with a shared bloodstream, through which well-connected individuals and flow from lobby organizations, to bureaucratic appointments, to media sinecures with ease. 

Look at the resume of a Beltway power player, and you’ll have a hard time telling the difference between elected officials, the agencies they nominally control, the special interests they serve, and the media that’s supposed to keep them all honest. 

The same person can work for all of those entities in the span of a decade.  The only thing they really cooperate on is the care and feeding of the Cromnibus, the misshapen thing that feeds them all through its multitude of teats.

* KILL... 'EM... ALL...!!! KILL... 'EM... ALL...!!! KILL... 'EM... ALL...!!! (STILL JUST RAMBLING ALOUD, FEDS!)

If all this “omnibus spending bill” jazz sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve played through the same hammy drama every year for the better part of a decade. In fact, the term “cromnibus” – currently beloved of such feisty insurgents as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) – is said to have been coined by the office of then-House Minority Leader John Bohener, circa 2007, when he energetically criticized the Democrat majority for doing exactly what Boehner is doing today. 

* DIE, BOEHNER, DIE! DIE, BOEHNER, DIE! DIE, BOEHNER, DIE!

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