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The Stupid Party Expands Government Again

House and Senate Republican leaders, collectively the Stupid Party, are yet again set to expand government, government spending, and engage in Keynesian economic policies they’ve criticized Barack Obama for.

Somewhat wisely, they are releasing all this as the Supreme Court releases its Obamacare decision so no one will pay attention. Ironically, as we wait to see if the Supreme Court gives Congress plenary power through the Commerce Clause, Congressional Republicans are feeding the Leviathan on their own.

Republicans and Democrats have agreed to a massive increase in federal gluttony with a highway bill. The Republicans decided to drop demands for approving the Keystone XL pipeline and demands that the EPA stop its ridiculous regulations on coal plants that will harm our energy future. In exchange, Democrats will not fund bike paths and highway landscaping.

In other words, Democrats should not be at all worried about Republican plans for Obamacare should any portion of it be declared unconstitutional later today. The GOP will just get scared and cave.

We’re at $16 billion TRILLION in debt and as the sun rises this morning we are reminded of two things: the Republicans are not serious about paying down the debt and many outside conservative groups will politely avert their eyes arguing that we must fight Barack Obama, not stop the Republican’s complicity in bankrupting our nation.

So much for credibility in the argument on spending.

COMMENTS

  • michaelbowler

    Since most republicans are not really fiscal conservatives and the leadership are most certainly not conservatives, they cannot save us from our nation’s budetary woes.

    Yes, there are a number of good, fiscally conservative republicans, it’s just that they don’t have any leadership positions and since they are outspoken…the leadership is quite set on ensuring they remain on the sideline.

    If you want conservative government, the future lies in sea change at the top. There’s a long way to go for that. It is a shame that Americans are forced to fight their governing parties tooth and nail to act in their interest, but we do and that’s not changing any time soon.

  • smokinmadokie

    Funny how easy that rolls off the tongue now.

  • http://hughcpeconjrs.blogspot.com/ hughpecon

    You must first give credit where credit is do. That would be the intellectually lazy, morally bankrupt, ignorant voters. Thanks to the government run indoctrination centers (Public Schools).

    “I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson

    He must be just so ashamed of us now.

  • edintexas

    We’ll soon have to update the sarcastic line attributed to Senator Dirksen (though there is no official record of his having used it) “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we’re talking real money.” I can remember when a friend argued that the line was “A million…”, not billion.

  • rj145

    I could not agree more. While the Republic is self-destructing, the oblivious “enlightened electorate” concerns itself with vital issues such as “American Idol” and “Dancing with the Stars”. Ultimately, the Nation will get what it deserves.

  • babykaboomer

    Republicans are a party of cave men.

  • renny

    in the in-coming Cong.

    Until the “old” Reps. can be overewhelmed by numbers or replaced, they will be stuck in the upthebudget mentality that has us where we are today.

    And two things they can never cut are 1) support for albino squirrels ($1 mil\lion) and 2) studies of the Samoan brown snake (also $1 million annually), and the ONLY way to get rid of the squirrels and he snake is to eliminate grants (started by Johnson) and ensnaring the gov in BILLOINS spent for grant writers for nothing.

  • tnguy

    Nothing can better explain why voting for big government republicans is a horrible idea, no matter who the opposition is.

  • funwithknives

    problem {and you best believe there is a problem} is that the Intelligence Deficit expands Geometrically over generations amd gets harder to combat.

    The hill gets higher and steeper.
    The evidence is all around us and undoubtedly you-all see it {in so many ways] continually.

    From “Certified” Teachers that know less than nothing {and prove same by merely opening their mouths} to elected officials who take an Oath and then become mere shills ,while failing in their Sworn Duties {and blowing off ‘complainers’ with form letters and blather}, America has a house-cleaning coming.

    Mencken exclaimed we get “…the Government we demand (deserve?),and to get it good and hard…” {Did I get that right?}
    No noise ,no input ,and you get what you always got.

    Play time is over. The digital wave enables vast & rapid responses, and it’s up to us, and those of like mind.

    The alternative is just not thinkable…….

  • macbookben

    nt

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    Wow. Can’t believe I did that.

  • http://boldcolor.blogspot.com/ Paula

    nt