Treasonous Mitch McConnell is violating the Constitution
If you've ever wondered why, when conservatives vote the Republicans control of both branches of congress [spit!] but very little conservative legislation is passed, or why the government continues to spend massive amounts of money on things Democrats want, but not conservatives, the main reason is the senate majority leader--a sneaky, treasonous son of a bitch named Mitch McConnell.
If you think I'm exaggerating about the "treasonous" part, consider: If a pol violates the Constitution, what would you call it?
Here's how he utterly defeated the will of the people:
If you control spending, you control the government. Every single aspect depends on funding.
The Founders--the most brilliant men on the planet--set up the House to be more responsive to the will of the people, since they had to stand for election every two years. And because they also knew that control of spending was control of government policies, they wrote into the Constitution that all spending bills had to originate in the House. The senate [spit!] could only agree or disagree with proposed House spending.
It was utterly brilliant. A magnificent piece of understanding human nature and crafting rules that would (in theory, at least) keep treasonous rat-bastards from blocking the good results the Founders wanted.
Except the Founders didn't reckon with the cunning of people like McConnell.
McConnell figured out how to totally, utterly thwart the will of voters, so that electing conservative representatives in the House would have no influence at all on government spending. His treasonous plan totally negated the votes for every conservative member of the House.
You think that's impossible. That's because you believe the Lying Mainstream Media.
What the Media doesn't tell you is that the senate majority leader has virtually total control over whether a bill passed by the House is even brought up for a floor vote in the senate. And in 2017, out of 768 bills passed by the House, McConnell refused to let the senate vote on 569 of them. Thus those 569 bills had no influence at all on government policy. Any good corrections proposed and passed by the GOP-majority House were defeated by a single person--the treasonous McConnell.
As every adult with an IQ over room temperature knows, the spending of every federal agency is supposed to be specified in "the budget"--a bill which the Constitution says must be originated and passed by the House. Unfortunately the Founders neglected to be more specific about whether the senate could *change* the House bill, instead of simply having to either vote yes or no. But with other bills, the senate can pass its OWN version. When that happens, bills go to a "conference committee," whose proceedings are secret. Such committees include the majority and minority leaders of both chambers. So Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, along with RINO Paul Ryan.
Thus all that was necessary for McConnell to control the budget of every agency of the federal government was to have the senate pass a slightly different version of the budget bill.
The "conference committee"--meeting entirely in secret--writes their own budget bill, which must have McConnell's approval to be considered for a floor vote in the senate. Because no one wants to buck the leadership, it passed. At that point the president knew it was the only thing McConnell would agree to, so the president was forced to either sign it or risk the firestorm of a government shutdown.
What McConnell did violates the Constitution in the most direct way possible: That document--once considered by everyone the supreme law of the land--specifies that all budget bills must start with the House, all of the members of which are elected every two years. When McConnell uses his position to re-write the budget--by blocking a straight up-or-down vote on the House bill--it nullifies the very prudent provision that ONLY the House can authorize government spending.
McConnell has taken over control of the treasury. He's cut the House out of the budget process. And Democrats in congress couldn't be happier.
If you think I'm exaggerating about the "treasonous" part, consider: If a pol violates the Constitution, what would you call it?
Here's how he utterly defeated the will of the people:
If you control spending, you control the government. Every single aspect depends on funding.
The Founders--the most brilliant men on the planet--set up the House to be more responsive to the will of the people, since they had to stand for election every two years. And because they also knew that control of spending was control of government policies, they wrote into the Constitution that all spending bills had to originate in the House. The senate [spit!] could only agree or disagree with proposed House spending.
It was utterly brilliant. A magnificent piece of understanding human nature and crafting rules that would (in theory, at least) keep treasonous rat-bastards from blocking the good results the Founders wanted.
Except the Founders didn't reckon with the cunning of people like McConnell.
McConnell figured out how to totally, utterly thwart the will of voters, so that electing conservative representatives in the House would have no influence at all on government spending. His treasonous plan totally negated the votes for every conservative member of the House.
You think that's impossible. That's because you believe the Lying Mainstream Media.
What the Media doesn't tell you is that the senate majority leader has virtually total control over whether a bill passed by the House is even brought up for a floor vote in the senate. And in 2017, out of 768 bills passed by the House, McConnell refused to let the senate vote on 569 of them. Thus those 569 bills had no influence at all on government policy. Any good corrections proposed and passed by the GOP-majority House were defeated by a single person--the treasonous McConnell.
As every adult with an IQ over room temperature knows, the spending of every federal agency is supposed to be specified in "the budget"--a bill which the Constitution says must be originated and passed by the House. Unfortunately the Founders neglected to be more specific about whether the senate could *change* the House bill, instead of simply having to either vote yes or no. But with other bills, the senate can pass its OWN version. When that happens, bills go to a "conference committee," whose proceedings are secret. Such committees include the majority and minority leaders of both chambers. So Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, along with RINO Paul Ryan.
Thus all that was necessary for McConnell to control the budget of every agency of the federal government was to have the senate pass a slightly different version of the budget bill.
The "conference committee"--meeting entirely in secret--writes their own budget bill, which must have McConnell's approval to be considered for a floor vote in the senate. Because no one wants to buck the leadership, it passed. At that point the president knew it was the only thing McConnell would agree to, so the president was forced to either sign it or risk the firestorm of a government shutdown.
What McConnell did violates the Constitution in the most direct way possible: That document--once considered by everyone the supreme law of the land--specifies that all budget bills must start with the House, all of the members of which are elected every two years. When McConnell uses his position to re-write the budget--by blocking a straight up-or-down vote on the House bill--it nullifies the very prudent provision that ONLY the House can authorize government spending.
McConnell has taken over control of the treasury. He's cut the House out of the budget process. And Democrats in congress couldn't be happier.
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