Why this compromise sucks

Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden brought the nation together with their compromise on raising the national credit limit. Just about everyone hates it.

The left is upset because there will be $136 billion in spending cuts in the next two years. The right is upset because that is only 1.7% of the money that will be spent. Right now, for every dollar Washington takes in taxes, it spends two.

Republicans agreed to suspend the limit — allow the government to borrow whatever the deep state wants — until after the 2024 election.

NYT said, “In exchange for suspending the limit, Republicans demanded a range of policy concessions from Mr. Biden. Chief among them are limits on the growth of federal discretionary spending over the next two years. Mr. Biden also agreed to some new work requirements for certain recipients of food stamps and the Temporary Aid for Needy Families program.

“Both sides agreed to modest efforts meant to accelerate the permitting of some energy projects — and, in a surprise move, a fast track to construction for a new natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia that has been championed by Republican lawmakers and a key centrist Democrat.”

That pipeline is nice but it does nothing to stop the spending spree. Ending Medicare and Medicaid funding of transsexual surgery would save money but obviously there is no one in Washington willing to call the trannies out. My guess is Speaker McCarthy still stocks Bud Light because the company is a major donor to his party.

The Daily Mail reported, “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joined a group of congressional conservatives who are ripping a new deal to raise the debt limit and curb spending for two years – saying it keeps the nation on a path toward bankruptcy.

“DeSantis, who last week formally announced his campaign for the White House, weighed in two days after President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the deal, which would suspend the federal debt limit through January 2025.

“Asked for his assessment, DeSantis told Fox News: ‘Well, prior to this deal . . . our country was careening towards bankruptcy. And after this deal our country will still be careening towards bankruptcy. And to say you can do $4 trillion of increases in the next year and a half, I mean, that's a massive amount of spending.’”

Bizarre. We give the government trillions a year and it still isn’t enough to feed the beast.

Rand Paul tweeted, “Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts. Deal will increase mandatory spending 5%, increase military spending 3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels. No real cuts to see here.

“Conservatives have been sold out once again!”

AOC is upset as well because the spending is slowing down. Oh no!

McCarthy said, “We let government grow, but at a slower rate.”

Nearly 30 years ago, Newt said the same thing.

He defended this compromise.

Newt wrote, “The agreement reached Saturday night between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden is an historic first step toward shifting government back toward common sense and conservatism.

“It is a step toward creating a smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, economic growth, prosperity, and more take home pay. All of this will also strengthen Social Security and Medicare.

“I emphasize it’s a first step because that is what I lived through in 1995 in our first year as a Republican House majority (the first in 40 years). Step by step, we got budget changes, moved from welfare to work, cut taxes, and reduced bureaucratic regulatory overkill. We launched a generation of prosperity built upon the foundations that President Ronald Reagan created in the 1980s.”

The parallel is genuine but Newt had a better hand. Not only did he hold the House but Republicans held the Senate as well. He also played his hand better by letting the government shut down, and even that led to the Lewinsky scandal.

Eventually — with the help of a little smoke and mirrors — we balanced the budget.

So now I am supposed to bore readers by Surb-splainin why the compromise is so groovy and to show off my knowledge by reminding readers that compromise got us our bicameral Congress and Electoral College at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

I won’t because compromise now sucks. Clinton and Newt held power in a time before Pelosi. Reid and Obama dragged disrespect and scorn into politics. They are as graceful as a drunken donkey.

Their hardball approach to politics is anathema to good governance. Theirs is a mobocracy where a majority of just one allows a ruling party to ignore the opposition, the Constitution, decency, and common sense by doing whatever they want wherever they want at whenever they want.

Therein lies the problem with defending this compromise because it is the only time Democrats have sought our counsel.

Where was the compromise on vaccine mandates? A Democrat Congress and a Democrat president ran roughshod over the Constitution as well as the practice of medicine by requiring people to take an experimental shot that was definitely not a vaccine as advertised.

The shot should have been limited to people at the highest risk of croaking from covid. I got my shots but I advised readers to make their own decision. That should have been federal policy but Biden is a bribed jerk who dreams of being the American Mussolini.

Where was the compromise on Obamacare? Democrats passed it with no input from Republicans or the public.

Where are the compromises on environmental regulations? The bureaucracy just issues edicts with no proven science. Carbon dioxide is not — repeat, not — a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is a nutrient. Without it, life on earth will cease to exist.

Every single prediction by the climate change cult has not come true. It still snows in winter, rains in the spring and heats in the summer. We have floods. We have droughts. The rich have beach houses.

The Constitution created a government that explicitly prevented rule by unelected government officials. The Declaration of Independence specifically called out King George III for doing that, as it said, “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

Thomas Jefferson 247 years ago eerily described what Washington is today.

I was among those who was hoping the compromise would never be reached and Washington would shut down for the summer. Why wouldn’t I? Why would I want to work with Democrats? Hillary called me deplorable. Biden called me and my readers the dregs of society. Obama flipped me the bird.

To hell with them and to hell with their compromise because they refused to even listen to us when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. Now suddenly they need us and want to compromise.

How big of them, eh?

Make them crawl. Exact a very public and very real humiliation because they deserve a comeuppance for stealing the elections of 2020 and 2022.

McCarthy may have scored more points in this deal but he made a mistake by playing their game. He should have played our game and let the government shut down before reaching an agreement.

Instead he looks weak because he is weak. Matt Gaetz did not give him enough spine.

We can play hardball and win. Benny Johnson tweeted from a Target location, “A whistleblower sent me an exclusive internal Target memo ORDERING the deconstruction of the Groomer Pride section ACROSS stores.

“I went to the Target we reported from last week to check. I was shocked at what we found.

“The Pride display signage is GONE. Groomer items GONE. Satanic designer items GONE. Sex cult children’s books GONE. Tuck swimsuits GONE. Baby clothes GONE. Child mannequins GONE. And much, much more.

“This is the power we have to protect our children. We should use it more often. Onward.”

The tweet has a video and parts of it are hilarious.

Bud Light. Target. We win when we fight — and we lose when we compromise with people who believe we are deplorable and the dregs of society.