How many times will we keep falling for this *government-shutdown* cliffhanger ?

Never mind that a budget is the leading constitutional responsibility for Congress.  Never mind that a deadline for passing a budget comes at the same time(s) every year.  Never mind that these grifters haven’t passed a budget since 1997. 

Two or three times a year, we are scared by the media and political establishment into accepting an out-of-control spending orgy in order to avoid – *GASP* — a “government shutdown.”

The funny thing is — there never is a full, complete government shutdown.  Many government workers get sent home with the promise of being paid down-the-road.  If something does get closed, it will be a tourist attraction like Yellowstone National Park or The Lincoln Memorial. All sorts of school trips and family outings will be *ruined* and the few pols fighting the good fight for fiscal responsibility will get an earful from the drive-by media and some low-info constituents.   The big spenders rarely get held accountable for spending our country into a huge hole and refusing to partake in responsible budgeting.

Why not go to work on honest budgeting and spending bills?  That would make it harder to pay back / pay off special interests requiring said PB/PO.

Here’s The Washington Examiner on the latest spending fight:

The House passed a spending bill that will avert the government from shutting down till March. The bill passed the Republican-controlled chamber 366-34 (with one present) with 196 Democratic members voting in favor of the bill.

This means that the 34 No Votes were all Republicans, with three notable defectors being Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NC), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX).

Mace shared on X that she voted against the bill due to its high levels of spending that lack any guardrails that could lead the country into a “fiscal trainwreck.” This is the third time she’s voted against the Continuing Resolution.

“This bill signs off on continuing the $1.778 trillion in Biden-Pelosi level spending from the last CR and includes no cuts, and no accountability,” Mace wrote on X. “Instead of single-subject bills, we get handed a fiscal trainwreck. The American people are watching. We can, and should do better.”

Like Mace, Massie has called for separating the four different bill and voting on them each individually.

“Radical right? Individual bills for each issue.”