Why Washington does not work anymore...

 

 

"As the old expression goes, 'This is no way to run a railroad'..."

It has happened again. Only this time, it happened with the help of the Republican led House. And it had the Speaker's fingerprints all over it. Rather than ObamaCare and the Stimulus Bill, which Republicans for the most part eschewed, this time the RINOs grabbed the GFY 15 Funding Bill and kissed it on the lips. It was enough to make me puke.

The word "Omnibus" should never be used in connection with any kind of bill in Washington. Nothing good ever comes from it. This funding bill, in similar fashion to the Stimulus Bill, is loaded up with more goodies than Santa can deliver. And also, in similar fashion to the Stimulus Bill or ObamaCare, nobody read this gargantuan mess. Maybe Dr. Gruber is right. We are too stupid not to question or put an end to this process.

We could have passed a stop gap bill which would have gone out to February. The President at one time signaled he was okay with that. In February, the new Republican led House and Senate would have been in session. It would have been an opportunity to show the taxpayers how to pass common sense bills the right way. Or not. With RINOs running both the House and Senate next year, we still might have received a pork filled gobblty gook piece of %$#@.

So the debt keeps going up, we keep taxing, printing and borrowing and the spending spree continues. Who cares, right? Not our problem. By the time the ship hits the sand, it will be our kid's problem. They will look back in history and wonder what in the world was wrong with us. Why we constantly spent more that we took in. Why we put stupid, and I mean stupid, things in bills which have no correlation to the bill what so ever. In the real world, people would be fired for this. In the real world, some people might even ended up in jail for this type of financial maleficence.

The GFY 15 Funding Bill is now history. People will soon forget. The talk of the town is torture and actionable intelligence. How bad we were right after 9/11. The Bush haters will keep that discussion going well through the winter. Not the debt. Heavens no! Who cares about the debt when we have torture to discuss. Not the beheading of Christian children by ISIL this weekend. Nope. Don't care. But torture, we need a blue ribbon panel to look at that, again, and again, and again.

So why is Washington broken? Because we elect weak, unprepared, and unprincipled people to fix it. Soon those people show they are not the fixers we hoped for, instead they become part of the problem. On the Potomac, principled people are in short supply . People who want to line their pockets however, are legions.