This isn't fair

The f*cking House Republican shenanigans with the budget and continuing resolutions and tax cuts and military spending and domestic spending are maddening -- and disgusting.


House Republicans eye defense spending boost, complicating plan to avoid second shutdown

"House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) pitched the plan to his GOP colleagues in a closed-door meeting Monday. The bill, set for a vote on Tuesday, would increase Pentagon funding by about $30 billion, to $584 billion, breaking existing spending caps as well as making funding available through September. The rest of the government would continue to be funded at 2017 levels through March 23."

So that's what they want - and have wanted for a couple of years now - to slip out of the binds of sequestration that they CAUSED to be imposed in the first place, increasing funding for the military*, but avoiding raising spending on domestic programs.

* We do need to increase funding for the military.  But trying to avoid sequestration for military spending yet keep it in place for domestic spending is not fair.  At all.   Hence the title of this post.

Of course this is what they want to do.  They're Republicans -- this is what they do.  Put very simply, they lie, cheat, and steal.  Just like the POTUS.

Think I'm wrong?  They don't even want to provide money for disaster aid!!  (And may I say, AGAIN!)

This is ridiculous.  But for Republicans, ridiculous is normal.

House passes another spending patch as top party leaders finalize two-year budget deal

Sounds good, right?  Not so fast.  Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows (who we can refer to as Lil' JJ and M&M) have this to say:

“This is a bad, bad, bad, bad — you could say ‘bad’ a hundred times — deal,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus. “When you put it all together, a quarter-of-a-trillion-dollar increase in discretionary spending — not what we’re supposed to be doing.”

Hey, Lil' JJ - maybe that $1.5. trillion dollar unnecessary tax cut wasn't such a great idea, eh?

So what does M&M have to say?

"Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the Freedom Caucus chairman, said a broad deal encompassing a debt-limit increase and a huge disaster package would be “considered a lead balloon” among hard-line conservatives. “It’d get zero support” from the caucus, he said, aside from a member or two representing states affected by the disasters."

These numb-nuts simply make me SICK.  Maybe they think it's possible to repeal Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Maria, and devastating deadly wildfires in California and the Pacific Northwest, followed by mudslides closing down major highways.

They'd be wrong. They're idiots.

But they're Republicans.  So that's what we should expect.