A Rubber Chicken at a Gunfight, the Shrinking, Rudderless House GOP Funds Deep State, Gets Nothing in Return, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, March 25, 2024

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His upcoming book is No Second Amendment, No First.

Let’s start with a purely hypothetical question. Which is worse?

1. Temporarily shutting down some government offices so well-paid, unfireable federal employees temporarily miss a few days’ worth of compensation in order to demand at least some concessions on crucial issues for the half of the U.S. population you claim to represent.? Or:

2. Lavishly funding all of your political enemies’ priorities, including funds for the Deep State agencies that are selectively persecuting your pro-life and Christian constituents, without even getting in return some enforcement of our broken borders — which, every day, admit thousands of future welfare state clients who will prove almost impossible to deport?

If you say 2., you have a bright future as a GOP member of Congress. Some 101 Republicans voted with Democrats Friday to pass the latest bill surrendering the “power of the purse” — which our Founders meant as one of the last backstops against a one-party State. House Speaker Mike Johnson did not invoke the old “Hastert Rule,” which would have insisted on support from a “majority of the majority” for the bill to pass. So the massive federal agencies that is targeting pro-life parents and Latin Mass Catholics while leaving our borders unguarded will get their next truckload of money borrowed from China, which our grandchildren will have to repay. And what have conservatives and Christians gotten in return for this? …

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