Republican voters across the country certainly did not elect 50 U.S. senators to support President Joe Biden’s socialist agenda. In fact, these senators were elected to serve as a bulwark against the far-left legislation being pushed by our cognitively deficient president and Democratic congressional leadership. Unfortunately, those wishes are being ignored by Republican senators who are more interested in cutting “deals,” rewarding lobbyists, and expanding the size of the giant federal government.
Once again, the conservative base of the Republican Party has been betrayed by its so-called leaders in the United States Congress. In the latest monstrosity, the $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill, a horrific piece of legislation, was advanced this weekend by eighteen Republican U.S. senators. It will give Democrats and President Joe Biden another victory, while the grassroots forces of the GOP suffer another painful defeat.
The GOP senators supporting the legislation are a RINO faction, including such embarrassing GOP figures as Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rob Portman of Ohio, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. For good measure, worthless U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky added his support for the “bipartisan” legislation.
Bipartisanship always ends up helping the Democratic Party because Republicans get nothing in return. Such legislation increases the federal debt, expands the government, and gives conservatives no victories to savor.
The GOP’s goal in the U.S. Congress should be to defeat Democratic opponents. Republicans should work nonstop to defeat every piece of socialist legislation Democrats champion, leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, which will hopefully give the party more clout and control over Congress. However, if the GOP continues to hand Democrats victories like the “infrastructure” bill, there will be little, if anything, left to salvage after the midterm elections.
The “infrastructure” bill is 2,702 pages long and has certainly not been read in its entirety by any member of the United States Senate. It is more than twice the size of the Bible, but without the “Good News.”
It’s nothing more than another expansion of government, reckless spending, and bribes to powerful interests. President Donald Trump has called the bill a “gift to the Democratic Party.” He’s right, of course, and Republicans can thank their gutless Senate Minority Leader and the RINOs in their caucus for this latest disaster.
The bill includes very little in the way of actual infrastructure. According to the Republican Study Committee, only about 10% of the bill actually goes to customary infrastructure projects. The rest of the bill includes funding for digital capital grants, zero-emission vehicles and green energy projects. It also formalizes gender identity as a protected class, provides for alcohol monitoring for drivers and will track mileage so that novel taxes can be added.
Not surprisingly, the bill is just another liberal bucket of spending priorities. While the bill fails to achieve any conservative goals, the word “equality” is used at least 64 times. According to far-left Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the bill also addresses “the racism that is physically built into some of our highways.” It’s not clear how the highways are racist, but billions of dollars would be spent to fix it.
The bill does nothing to address America’s biggest crisis, the invasion of illegal immigrants at our southern border. While zero dollars is not earmarked for a border wall, at least $2.5 billion is earmarked for additional “border processing stations.” These facilities will not be used to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants, but will be used to facilitate destitute Central American “migrants” get the resources and guidance they need to get into the United States.
Another troubling feature is that the bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office, would add $256 billion to the national debt. A Penn-Wharton University of Pennsylvania budget model calculated an even larger addition to the national debt of $351 billion without any “significant” economic benefit from the legislation.
Republicans were concerned about the national debt and limiting the size of the federal government, but such values are virtually nonexistent in the U.S. Congress today. Along with the fiscal problems caused by the larger debt, there will be inflationary pressures that will be created. This is a earnest problem because inflationary pressures are already skyrocketing in our country. In fact, the prices of everything from groceries to gasoline have risen to their highest levels in over a decade.
This inflationary pressure acts as an additional tax on hard-working Americans who are still suffering from the COVID pandemic, the effects of the lockdowns and the fact that millions of jobs in the US economy have not yet returned since the crisis began in March 2020.
For all these reasons and more, Senate Republicans should not work with Democrats and the President on the budget-busting Green New Deal, the misnamed “infrastructure” legislation. When Donald Trump was president, Democrats refused to work with him on infrastructure legislation. In fact, Democrats spent his entire four-year term trying to impeach, convict, and politically destroy him.
Republicans should have the same attitude toward radical socialist Joe Biden and Democratic Party leaders in Congress. There should be no cooperation, no bipartisanship, only political opposition to a unsafe, far-left agenda.
Another reason to oppose this bill is that it is only part one of a two-part disastrous legislative combo that Democrats are preparing to pass this year. The companion legislation is even bigger, at $3.5 trillion, and more offensive, as it includes “climate action,” expansion of government-funded health care programs, and other items on the Democratic legislative wish list.
Unless Republicans show political courage and take action to stop this initiative, the nightmare for our country will only get worse in the days, weeks, and months ahead.
