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Where are the Republican leaders who will teach Americans we can’t go on like this? Ronald Reagan was the last Republican president to warn against debt. Heaven forbid that the government should restrain itself when it comes to spending at current levels, which, of course, are raised nearly every year, giving us a $31 trillion-dollar debt and counting. According to their media note takers, the failure to pass an omnibus bill will result in one of two scenarios: a government shutdown, or the ruin of federal agencies forced to maintain spending at current levels.” It always is when they’re spending other people’s money to perpetuate their careers.Ī Wall Street Journal editorial notes, “Democrats want to stuff all 12 of Congress’s annual overdue spending bills into a giant ‘omnibus’ to finance the government through September 2023. A majority of their caucus voted last week to restore earmarks, which they once eliminated, but the temptation to succumb to these spending perks appears to have been too seductive. Not all GOP members have clean hands when it comes to spending and pork for their districts. 16 is the “deadline” for the expiration of funding the government and don’t you know that Democrats will be hauling out their “Scrooge” and “Grinch” metaphors if Republicans don’t do their bidding. Remember previous threats about retirees not getting their Social Security checks and closed signs at national parks? It’s all theatrics.ĭec. Republicans (and much of the major media) will still be blamed should a shutdown occur. Never mind that for the next few weeks Democrats still have a House majority. In a script familiar to an extortionist and to the public because we’ve seen it before, Democrats can be counted on to threaten a government “shutdown” if Republicans don’t go along with their plans to spend more money we don’t have. House Democrats apparently have decided to leave their majority with a spending spree. There is little Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree on these days, but spending (and borrowing) money is as nonpartisan as it gets.