By Daniel Horowitz, Conservative Review:
In elementary school, my classmates used to tell “you’re so dumb” jokes, such as, “you’re so dumb you got hit by a parked car.” Watching Republicans today, I was reminded of my juvenile days because we have a party that is so dumb they are preemptively surrendering the entire budget to Democrats, even though Democrats control a minority of one branch of government. Then again, Republicans aren’t really dumb; they just don’t share our values.
The progressive purists who run this party are so pure in their desire to say no to any conservative idea that they will give Democrats everything they want on the entire budget — both in terms of spending levels and policies. Senate Republicans have essentially telegraphed the message to Democrats that they are so scared of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) winning a government shutdown fight from the minority of one branch that they are willing to give surrender on spending levels, funding for Planned Parenthood, and keep out any conservative policy riders, such as codifying Trump’s executive order by defunding refugee resettlement. Worse, they are scuttling funding for the border wall, Trump’s the most foundational campaign promise.
Thus far, it is shocking how a party with control of all branches of government has accomplished absolutely nothing in its first two months. It is unprecedented for a party with full control to squander its most potent and immediate political capital. Democrats had already enacted major fiscal and social policies by this time in 2009. Yet, the budget bill due in April was the last great hope to salvage some policy victories for the first 100 days. Now that is dashed by this Republican Party, which has shown itself to be nothing more than an affirmative action version of the Democrat Party for dumb people.
As The Hill’s Alex Bolton reports, Senate Republicans have not only guaranteed Democrats they will give them all the policies and spending levels in the bill, but they will also jettison the president’s request for a supplemental spending bill for construction of the border wall, along with spending offsets.
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