heyzeus wrote:Yes, removing the ability of the federal government to pay its debts and employees certainly has the effect of making it smaller. Kind of like a great way to lose weight being a .357 to the forehead.
The debt ceiling blackmail is not a legislative philosophical foray into the role of government in our lives. It is an attempt to force a legislative agenda that failed in the Senate and failed at the polls and failed at the Supreme Court by tying that attempt to the basic functioning of our government. And it belies an open hostility to government at all, not merely a "slimming down," otherwise they'd be going about this via the actual democratic channels rather than via terroristic threat.
It's only hostility to those parts of government they don't like. Other parts would metastasize.
I thought this year's Farm Bill was going to be the first example of such reform. It wasn't.
heyzeus wrote:Yes, removing the ability of the federal government to pay its debts and employees certainly has the effect of making it smaller. Kind of like a great way to lose weight being a .357 to the forehead.
The debt ceiling blackmail is not a legislative philosophical foray into the role of government in our lives. It is an attempt to force a legislative agenda that failed in the Senate and failed at the polls and failed at the Supreme Court by tying that attempt to the basic functioning of our government. And it belies an open hostility to government at all, not merely a "slimming down," otherwise they'd be going about this via the actual democratic channels rather than via terroristic threat.
It's only hostility to those parts of government they don't like. Other parts would metastasize.
I thought this year's Farm Bill was going to be the first example of such reform. It wasn't.
“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., [told the Washington Examiner]. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., [told the Washington Examiner]. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
This is governing? Hey [expletive] - the world is watching you make an ass out of your country.
