Dems: All Good Things Must Come to a Spend

Forget reading the bill after you pass it — now Senate Democrats want to pass a bill that doesn’t exist! Taking their abuse of the legislative process to new heights, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) did something that no one learned on Schoolhouse Rock: he held a vote on nothing. Just trust us, Democrats cooed. It’ll be great. Republicans, who’ve been stung by plenty of bills they had read, refused. Maybe Schumer needs a refresher on how Congress works — but, as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pointed out, “Around here, we typically write the bills before we go.”

The phantom proposal, which was supposed to be the shell of Joe Biden’s phony infrastructure bill, never materialized. Amazingly, that didn’t deter Democrats, who are desperate to blow through more taxpayer dollars before summer recess. Well, the Left has proved they can game the system, but they can’t bypass it. “These discussions have yet to conclude,” McConnell said “There’s no outcome yet, no bipartisan agreement, no text. Nothing for the Congressional Budget Office to evaluate. And certainly nothing on which to vote. Not yet. So obviously, if the Democratic leader tries to force a cloture vote on a bill that does not exist. It will fail.”

And it did. Republicans, even the ones negotiating with Democrats, refused to take a $1.2 trillion dollar proposal on faith. “There just isn’t the kind of trust around it right now that would allow that to happen,” Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) warned. Across the aisle, Schumer, competing for understatement of the year, declared after the vote, “In order to finish the bill, first we need to start.” That’s proving to be a tall order for Biden’s party. Turns out, there’s a big difference between squawking about bipartisanship and actually practicing it. And of course, Democrats have made that even more difficult by trying to cram the bill full of wildly unpopular priorities.

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