Chuck Schumer wisely caved and passed the Continuing Resolution to fund the government. Watch the hypocrites blast Schumer. 
The Debate Over the Continuing Resolution: AOC Blasts Schumer
Yesterday, I commented The Debate Over the Continuing Resolution: AOC Blasts Schumer
Looking back to last year, Krysten Sinema was driven from the Democrat party because she refused to abolish the filibuster when Democrats had the chance.
Sinema wisely looked ahead to what would have become mob rule by a majority party with no Senate checks.
Now Democrats are angry with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for not using the Filibuster.
Here are some amusing exchanges between Sinema, AOC, Pramila Jayapal, and others on their hypocrisy. Sinema used images from 2024 posts.
Who Now Supports the Jim Crow Filibuster?
Sinema to AOC “Hypocrisy is the Point”
Robert Reich in the Filibuster Admiration Club
AOC’s Change of Heart
Ro Khanna wants to “stand up for the Constitution and our democracy”
Complete Hypocrites List
Democrats Ruined a Potential Rising Start
Krysten Sinema was a potential rising star. But the Progressive cancel culture ruined her because she would not agree to pack the Supreme Court.
Now the hypocrites who drove her from the party are mad at Chuck Schumer who passed the Continuing Resolution to fund the government.
Let’s go over what I said yesterday in The Debate Over the Continuing Resolution
Two Guidelines
- If AOC is unhappy, that’s generally a sign something good is happening
- If Rep. Massie is unhappy, that’s generally a sign something bad is happening
Those two guidelines are in conflict.
Background
Last week I was asked if I thought Schumer would agree to the Continuing Resolution. I replied “Of course, Democrats are not as stupid as Republicans when it comes to CRs. Parties that stop the government always end up losing.”
I made that comment after Schumer said he wouldn’t support the CR. It was an obvious bluff, and Schumer relented.
Schumer had a losing hand and he knew it. Had he held out the price on Democrats would likely have been worse.
That is what happened to Republicans three times when they foolishly tried to stop Continuing Resolutions to fund the government.
This CR was by no means as bad on Democrats as the howling suggests. It cut very little (see above link for details).
Also note March 14, 2025: Hoot of the Day: House Republicans Suddenly Like Clean Energy Tax Breaks
21 House Republicans now like Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act incentives.
By the time Republicans are done “bargaining” the deficit is likely to soar. Republicans may win on DEI but little else, because the majority of the country is against DEI nonsense.
Why Did Trump Lose in Court on the Mass Firing of Government Workers?
Yesterday, I commented Why Did Trump Lose in Court on the Mass Firing of Government Workers?
The short answer is DOGE did not follow the law. The long answer is complex.
It seems people cannot read. One person commented (twice) …
“I understood the decision by Judge Alsup was already overturned in spite of the “highly likely 70%” it wouldn’t be. Their prediction lasted a few hours. Am I missing something?”
That was a completely different case. I have been a 100 percent backer of Trump on DEI.
January 26, 2025: Praise Trump for Ending DEI. But Unrooting Infestation Will Take Time
DEI infestation is still pervasive at Universities, especially the University of Colorado. How do we rectify that?
March 2, 2025: Academia Learned Nothing from Trump’s Revolt Against DEI Nonsense
Let’s discuss a theory that the Left learned hard lessons from the election.
Trump may not win every DEI case, but he has already won in corporate America and many colleges.
With that let’s return to Why Did Trump Lose in Court on the Mass Firing of Government Workers?
The stupid thing about these firings is all Trump had to do was get Congress to go along. Congress would not have agreed to all of the cuts Trump wants, but it would have agreed with some of them.
But Trump does not want to be President, he wants to be King. The courts wisely said no.
Everyone should applaud because the next President may very well want to be a Democrat King.
I Support DOGE
I want to reiterate that I am 100 percent behind the mission of DOGE. I want to reduce costs and get rid of departments.
I am on board with getting rid of the Department of Education.
The problem I have had with DOGE is my repeated warning that Trump should do this legally or it would backfire.
No one can honestly say I got this wrong.
Clueless people refuse to read what I say despite the fact that I made it clear.
I even said “Alsup says that the government can reduce its force under the RIF Act, but has to follow the process. So why not follow the process?“
As I have said in the beginning, on all of these cases, Trump would have been far better off going about these processes legally.
Heck, even some semblance of legality might have worked. But this was a clear “sham”, a word Judge Alsup used at least five times.
Another Ill-Advised Self-Inflected Mess
I support workforce reduction, provided it’s done in accordance with the law.
But time and time again, Trump has issued illegal Executive Orders whose only purpose is to put Trump above the law.
Trump, like Biden flouted the law. That’s why Trump lost in court, not because (as some clueless readers claimed), Alsup is a Clinton appointee.
The fact of the matter: “Bill Allsup was a brilliant lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School, worked as a litigator in one of the top law firms in the United States, and did a stint at the Solicitor General’s office, the most elite unit in DOJ. (Chief Justice Roberts Kavanaugh, and Alito served.”
The stupidity of it all is the RIF act is not that had to follow.
And like AOC then and now, the hypocrites (Republican) are whining about the process.
In a budget resolution, Republicans could easily get this through Congress on a simple majority vote. They haven’t even tried.
Pitiful.
Is it a law that congress is supposed to create a budget on a yearly basis? Is a CR just another rule of privilege? What are Pelosi’s latest rule of congressional privilege insider stock trades? How long is the list of privilege from accountability to anti trust law? In another rule of privilege move, FASB was told by congress to allow banks to lie about the value of their assets.
“No o0ne is above the law.” Gaslighting.
Any experienced senior manager worth their salary knows that you have an obligation to protect both the employer and the employee when downsizing or terminating people. I’m very surprised these guys would not consult with lawyers before communicating anything to anyone or, if they did, follow that advice. They look like very inexperienced leaders, or at least, ignorant about human resource policies, union rules and the law. Amateurs.
Trump is for peace. After the Hooties renewed their threats Trump started a bombing campaign against the Hooties. The US navy and air force blasted over one hundred targets in Yemen in the last 24 hours, killing at least 15 people in Sanaa. The strikes will cont for several days or weeks.
I hope AOC gets control…… Dem’s will disintegrate!
Old cinema movie.
Chuck numbed the reps like Hamas numbed the Israelis. One day chuck might adopt the radical reps policies, neuter them, in order to prevent AOC from becoming a NY senator. He lost the senate leadership, but he isn’t going to lose to AOC. He might shutdown the gov for a few months to stay alive. If correct, JP will cut rates !
First of all Sinema is a has-been – nobody cares what she thinks – she and Kari Lake will end up doing a podcast together that no-one will listen to. Secondly, the democrats didn’t use the filibuster on the CR, didn’t even use the threat of the filibuster to gain one single solitary concession from the republicans. They cannot claim to be any kind of check on Trump and Musk’s rampage through government services. But anyway, the recession is here, the depression is coming. The DC swamp will own all of it and hopefully they all lose their jobs.
Yes, Sinema is a has been. Did I not say so?
“Krysten Sinema was a potential rising star. But the Progressive cancel culture ruined her because she would not agree to pack the Supreme Court.”
She had at least a couple of things going for her.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwUiJkaiavT2EM4cEcbM8FJurVytFj5o26Cg&s
I would appear that Sinema is that rarity; a politician with integrity, who puts country above self. If she has become a nobody, it’s your loss.
It isn’t difficult to see why the democraps are a declining party.
First, regarding Sen. Sinema and the filibuster, the suspicion about the Progressive-Democrats might have been true: that they believe (falsely?) that they have the support of the majority of the public and after the Voting Rights Advancement Act is enacted P-Democrats will hold office ‘permanently’. All those previously ineligible immigrants, 2000 mules and dead voters count. Many third world ruling elites, as well as those of Russia and Venezuela believe the same thing. We would not be better if that happened. How long would it take to realize that we are ruled by tyrants? How long would it take the P-Democrats to realize that they have become tyrants?
Second, Republican support now for all that spending in Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ shows the level of corruption our system promotes.
And to the extent people in the public act according to F. Bastiat’s observation, that government is the means by which people attempt to live at the expense of other people, those people have become corrupt also.
The laws of economics have not been repealed and as Herb Stein might have once remarked, debt that can’t be paid, won’t be paid. Then things get ugly.
“debt that can’t be paid, won’t be paid” How did that work out for Greece? Puerto Rico?
The real issue is not that the debt can’t be paid back, it’s that it won’t be forgiven.That’s what enslaves people. Interest will be paid, even if it has to be extracted by confiscation and force.
US national debt will go much higher than anyone ever thought possible and it will not be forgiven. It may be inflated away, but any way you look at it, the people will wind up paying for it.
To paraphrase someone “debts are always paid; if not by the borrower, then by the lender”. Also “if something cannot happen, it won’t”.
Yep. The government will either:
1. cancel/repudiate the debt, in which case people who hold government debt lose their investment (and let’s leave aside any debates on the morality of holding government debt)
2. Inflate the debt away, which destroys the purchasing power of the dollar and of future earnings in dollars
3. Pay the debt back through increased taxes on citizens
4. Deny or reduce social security benefits. Maybe Medicare, too.
4. Sell off government assets
5. Combination of the above
Whatever option(s) is selected, it will be just the latest instance of the following phenomenon:
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“How long would it take the P-Democrats to realize that they have become tyrants?”
That would never happen. The proletariat, lacking proper education in “the classics”, is incapable of organizing their own lives for the greater good.
Krugman is forever whining that the people are voting against their own interests which he can easily see.
More details here,
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/partyPR46.html
He was given his Nobel prize so he would have street cred as a regime apologist.