To quote W. C. Fields, there comes a time in the life of every man “when he must take the bull squarely by the tail and face the situation.” A more appropriate description of the fetid swamp that is D.C. could hardly be made. Democrats are trying to destroy America as quickly as possible, and Republicans seem somewhat befuddled as to what they can do. After all, they only control (by the barest of margins) a single House of Congress and face a virulent incompetent across the Resolute Desk. Their leader in the House is suddenly being accused of being a squish, having surrendered in the debt limit negotiations while gaining very little.
To quote Vito Corleone, it’s time to make them an offer they can’t refuse. And if McCarthy holds firm, America will celebrate. Let me ‘splain it to you.
One of the promises Kevin McCarthy made was that the House would operate under “regular order.” That means, among other things, that each departmental appropriations bill will come up for a vote by itself. So, the Department of the Interior gets a vote, the Department of Education gets a vote, and so on. This is radically different from “Omnibus” appropriations that have come year after year when negotiations break down, or the House just doesn’t get its work done. When that happens, bureaucrats celebrate, and taxpayers get screwed.
Suppose that the Speaker gives his various committees “drop dead” dates for getting bills to the floor. On top of that, suppose there are some conservative ideas in those bills. The Education bill might be a good place to start. After all, that’s where the street fighting is already happening.
We don’t need to argue about whether the Department of Education is constitutional. It isn’t. But it gets in under the “general welfare” label for the moment. So, what would happen if the new DOE funding bill includes:
- A ban on DEI programs
- A ban on LGBT-alphabet soup athletes participating in sports as other than their sex at birth.
- A ban on any funding to any school that has any restrictions on speech that is otherwise protected by the First Amendment (pronouns, for example).
- A ban on any funding to any school that restricts student groups based on viewpoint or fails to provide adequate security for those groups.
- A ban on any funding to any school that teaches “social justice.”
- A ban on Federally Insured Student Loans or Pell Grants to any school where FISL loan defaults are at twice the national average (currently about 11%).
- (Fill in the blank with your favorite that I missed…)
FIRE ALL Democrats > SOLVED !!!!!