Negotiations to fund the government continue. The current continuing resolution expires at midnight tonight.
The Question: Why Have Democrats Refused To Pass A Bill To Keep Government Open And Fund The Troops?
The Answer: They will not agree to stop funding abortion clinics with our tax dollars. How far has our great Nation fallen that a President and the Senate Leader Harry Reid are more interested in funding abortions than funding the troops for the rest of the year. The democrats call it compromise - most American's call it supporting death with public funding - your money.
I realize that it is desirable to people to ignore the above comment. Many of our Government leaders are not concerned about the deficit or the debt placed on Americans or the unsustainable course of government spending. The core of the problem is a "rottenness" in the spirit of our country's leadership which demeans the value of life by taking the "people money" and not paying down debt but choosing to promote more spending thus creating more debt and enslavement to the holders of that debt. And then they focus spending goes towards abortions, expanding wars, controlling peoples private relationship with their doctors, their employers, their bankers, their families, their neighbors, their churches, their communities, their schools -- and even what products we are allowed to use, eat, etc, etc. etc. On it goes to the very taking of property rights which includes the very dollars we receive in exchange for our own labor for when we worked. The government takes my money - your money - other people's money - and then barrows even more -- to pay for programs, services and organizations for which the majority of us -- the American people -- would never in good conscious choose to sacrifice our lives, our families' livelihood, our personal welfare, our time or our property (includes our money). There is indeed a very sick rottenness in Washington, D.C.
As negotiations over government funding continue, there remains a simple way to prevent a government shutdown when the current funding bill expires at midnight tonight: the Senate can pass, and President Obama can sign, the one-week continuing resolution passed by the House yesterday. That bill would cut another $12 billion in spending and fund our troops through the end of September.
Speaking on the floor today, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell explained the situation: “Democrats are saying the holdup is over social issues. This plays nicely into the political strategy they’ve decided on to distract people from their own fiscal recklessness. Republicans say the holdup is over the need to reduce Washington spending — that Democrats, including the President, would rather see the government shut down than to allow a reduction in the size and scope of Washington that is perfectly reasonable by any objective standard.”
“But whichever side you come down on,” Leader McConnell said, “two things are not in dispute in this debate. First, that the whole reason we’re in this mess is that Democrats abdicated their responsibility to keep the government funded through this year. And second, that Democrats have rejected the only plan out there that keeps the government open — the bipartisan Troop Funding Bill — for no apparent reason.”
Indeed, there still has been no word from the White House as to why President Obama said he’d veto that bill, other than that he strangely considers it a “distraction.” How exactly is keeping the government from shutting down and ensuring our troops are paid a “distraction?”
Further, Leader McConnell pointed out, “There is virtually nothing in the troop funding bill Republicans in the House passed yesterday that won’t be included in a final package.” If Democrats truly want to ensure that the government doesn’t shut down tonight, they could pass the House’s troop funding bill in the Senate. And President Obama could sign it. And yet, so far they’ve refused to.
As Leader McConnell said, “Let’s be very clear about this: if the government shuts down, it’s either because Democrats are pretending that a previously non-controversial provision is suddenly out of bounds. Or they refuse to take another baby step in the direction of balancing the government checkbook, something we know the American people want. Neither reason is worth a shutdown — especially when neither side actually wants one.”
The Speaker Office responded today to the White House threat to veto responsible legislation passed by the House Republicans to fund our troops for the remainder of the year, cut spending, and prevent a government shutdown. They ask Why? Good question. In its Statement of Administration Policy, the White House doesn’t cite a single policy to justify the veto. Read it for yourself.
The fact is, this partisan veto threat of non-controversial legislation by the Administration only has one practical purpose: to shut down the government. Remember these key facts:
- The troop funding bill passed by the House reflects a bipartisan, bicameral agreement reached last December – when Democrats still controlled both houses of Congress – for funding the Department of Defense. There’s nothing in the bill that won’t largely be encompassed in a final package because, again, neither the Administration nor Senate Democrats have raised a single policy objection. The only plausible reason for Senate Democrats to refuse to pass it, or for the president to refuse to sign it, is if they intend to shut down the government.
- The Democrats who run Washington have been rooting for a government shutdown. The former chairman of the DNC and “a de facto head of his party's left wing” told National Journal that Democrats should be “quietly rooting” for a government shutdown. And they’ve listened. Aides to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called a shutdown “more likely than not.” According to the Washington Post, the White House referred to the troop funding bill as a “distraction” – but funding our troops and preventing a government shutdown is not a distraction… unless their goal is to shut down the government.
- House Republicans have made every effort possible to fund the government while making the spending cuts needed to create new jobs. It’s been 48 days since the House passed H.R. 1. In that time, Senate Democrats have failed to pass a single bill that funds the government for the rest of the year or offer a credible plan for cutting spending. They simply haven’t done their job. And this failure goes all the way back to last year when they didn’t even propose a budget. The House-passed troop funding bill is the only bill out right now that would prevent a shut down.
The American people want Washington to stop the spending binge that is hurting our economy and threatening job growth without shutting down the government – and that’s exactly what Republicans are working to do.
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