For the last six years, we’re seen a dramatic shift in the way that people view government spending. The continued victories in the House and the Senate by Republicans is a very clear indicator that the American people want the government to spend less, to rein in the budgets, and to not fund everything that President Obama has planned.
There’s a problem. They aren’t doing it. The passage of the omnibus bill by the house means, as Rush Limbaugh put it, that there’s no Republican Party. There are a bunch of people in Congress who claim to be Republicans but who go against most of what Republican voters mandated them to do when we gave them the Senate in 2014.
Congress has the power of the purse and the Republicans are allowing President Obama to take whatever he needs out of that purse. It’s lunacy. It’s reprehensible. It’s outrageous. It’s not what the country needs.
Now, more than any time in modern history, the country needs a fiscal conservative in the White House. If Congress isn’t going to control spending, then it has to come from the top.
Thanks to the omnibus bill, we are completely funding Obamacare. This is just plain silly considering how badly it’s affecting the economy and even the health care industry itself.
Thanks to the omnibus bill, we are completely funding Planned Parenthood. What happened to all of the outrage that the party had just a few months ago when it was revealed that the women’s health organization is engaged in unethical practices?
Thanks to the omnibus bill, we are funding the refugee program that President Obama plans on using to bring in more Syrian refugees without the ability to screen them for terrorists.
Thanks to the omnibus bill, we are participating in the idiotic climate change debacle that will see the United States and a handful of European countries attempting to carry the weight of environmental issues for the whole world whether the science is clear or not.
This must end. There isn’t enough time to replace enough in Congress with true conservatives. We have to do it from the top. That means no to Donald Trump who has offered enough increases in spending to qualify him as a liberal Democrat in the same vein as Hillary Clinton. That means no to Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, or Chris Christie who have too many cronies needing favors to allow them to decrease government spending. That means no Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson who do not have the understanding to bring a complex government financial system to its knees without damaging the country itself.
Unfortunately, that means no to Rand Paul who has some of the right ideas but simply doesn’t have the support to actually win the nomination.
Right now, Ted Cruz is the only Presidential candidate with a chance of winning plus the fiscally conservative credentials to see this through once elected. If Congress won’t vote to stop the unsustainable spending in Washington DC, then we need someone with a track record of going after them even if it isn’t politically expedient.