Don’t Stop Now, Elon! Take Names And Kick Ass Among The Porkulous Authors

Who in the hell wrote this pork-laden monster?

Elon Musk has already mobilized enough X world disgust to shout it down, but he shouldn’t stop now. Next he needs to take names and kick ass among the staff in the Speaker’s office and among the rest of the GOP leadership who authored this 1547 page obscenity.

We mean it. Publish their names and job titles on X, and then shame and ridicule them out of town.

After all, what we have here is the UniParty disease itself. The job of the Republican Party in America’s two-party process of governance is to be the anti-government party and the paladin of fiscal rectitude. The Democrats long ago claimed the mantle as the “Government Party” and most surely the voters deserve more than a pointless choice between two Government Parties or a farm team stacked with RINO ringers pretending to be the opposition.

Nevertheless, time and again in recent decades the GOP has functioned as the fiscal handmaid of Washington’s addiction to borrow and spend. And the chief milkmaid has been four Republican Speakers in a row–John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy and now little Mikie Johnson, too.

So perhaps we see a pattern here. All four of these cats talked a good anti-spending game on the Republican rubber chicken circuit. But once back in the beltway and conducting the peoples’ business they have invariably turned into mushy accomodationists, and there is no mystery as to why.

In a word, they had been bamboozled into believing that government shutdowns are the kiss of death politically and must be avoided at any price. Yet once you accept that poisonous predicate it’s Katy-bar-the-door with respect to the slimy deals that can be extracted in the cloakroom one Member at a time in the struggle to muster-up 218 votes.

To be sure, if the game involved just horse-trading dollops of pork among the elected representatives of the people on Capitol Hill it would be bad enough. For instance, the Maryland delegation got a tidy $8 billion inserted into the CR for emergency relief from the damages caused by the cargo ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge awhile back. And there are scores and scores of such like and similar pork inserted at the behest of countless other legislative horse-traders.