Something's Gotta Give

Welcome to Saturday. We get to lick the wounds of the week. The insanity in centered in D.C. is destroying the country. 

The news this morning is especially depressing.

Federal workers being RIFed (fired)

Trump threatening sweeping Chinese tariff changes which sent the stock market tumbling. I can't prove it, but I'm sure his crime family made money off that. 

 House speaker Johnson announced he would cancel another week’s session, making four weeks he has kept House members from their jobs. Johnson first sent the members home on September 19. Staying out of session means not working on the budget that is overdue or hammering out the necessary appropriations bills. It means not working on figuring out a way to extend the healthcare premium tax credits that Democrats are demanding.

It also means not swearing in Representative Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), who won election on September 23 and who will provide the 218th vote on a discharge petition to trigger a vote on a measure requiring the release of the files the government has on the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Letters from an American)

I found the following comment especially insightful:

Immigration lawyer Aaron Reichlin-Melnick commented: “Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?” (Letters from an American)

I have to admit, I thought the budget standoff would be resolved before the 15th, which is the mid-month military pay day. However, Speaker Johnson's decision to keep house members out for another week indicates that there is no intention to actually resolve the shutdown. 

I am appalled that the solution to solving the budget problem seems to lie in making more people suffer. Thin about it--is that the kind of government we want? Self-aggrandizement at the expense of loyal employees?

And so, the Republicans are continuing to do the same thing over and wondering why nothing is changing. 

-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL