Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
As Congress gathers for its yearly submission to the Federal government\u2019s annual spending spree, preferably with one up-or-down vote, the Senate\u2019s \u2018bipartisan\u2019<\/span><\/a> funding agreement was an unrestrained sell out to fiscal insanity. \u00a0 <\/span>In the face of a $33 Trillion debt and a $2 Trillion deficit, the Senate\u2019s Continuing Resolution contains $6 Billion for Ukraine<\/span><\/a> setting the stage for a rendezvous with legislative chaos and political turmoil.<\/span><\/p>\n In a typical display of tyrannical behavior, Senate leadership unveiled a Continuing Resolution package one half hour before the Senate floor vote, providing no Member of the Senate with an opportunity to review, read or otherwise comment on what was being mandated for approval. \u00a0 <\/span>Given the fiscal reality of a potential default on the US debt as a terrifying option, it is more than appalling that the Senate is dominated by enough cowardly Senators to cast a 77-19 vote. \u00a0 <\/span>That vote included twenty seven spineless RINOs<\/span><\/a><\/span>,<\/span> the majority of whom routinely betray their Red Republican states and vote with the Democrats.\u00a0 <\/span>Part of the majority vote were Sens. Kevin Cramer (ND), John Barosso (Wyo.) and Roger Wicker (Mississippi) all with upcoming 2024 re election.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n RINO support for continued funding for the Ukraine war has set the stage for an antagonistic confrontation as the Uniparty<\/span> maintains majority control of the Senate and House appropriation funding apparatus.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) recently revealed upon exiting a classified meeting that \u2018there is no end game\u2019<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, there is no exit, no graceful or not so graceful exit from this self-executing neo-con catastrophe with the next step being deployment of\u00a0 <\/span>American troops.\u00a0 <\/span>A good guess is that the Biden Administration will not come to Congress for approval but that there are already \u2018advisors\u2019 in Ukraine with a continued increase in the ranks confirming final acknowledgement that Article 1, Section 8, the Constitutional war powers<\/span><\/a> requirement is a charade, a long gone pretense.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Hawley went on to suggest \u201cThey want us to be writing checks to Ukraine, direct to their government, forever \u2014 year after year, hundreds of billions of dollars. That is ridiculous. For what? What\u2019s the strategy?\u00a0 <\/span>They don\u2019t have one. It\u2019s nothing but nation-building. It is nothing but failing to invest in the United States,\u201d <\/i>he added. \u201cWe have to stop. This is crazy.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n In March, 2023, Hawley sponsored an amendment to establish a Special Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance Act\u00a0 <\/span>to monitor Federal funds<\/span><\/a> going to Ukraine. The motion was defeated 26 \u2013 68 with 21 RINOs<\/span><\/a> joining the Democrats, the majority of whom are from Red Republican states. In other words, Members of the once illustrious Senate prefer to avoid the harsh reality that their support for the Ukraine war has taken the country to the brink of bankruptcy.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/span><\/p>\n On the House side, as a result of an enormous number of en blanc amendments during is spending extravaganza, here is a sample of many worthy amendments:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Biggs Amendment to cut $300 Million from Ukraine: \u00a0 <\/span>104 \u2013 330 with 117 RINOs<\/span><\/a> voting NO\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Boebert Amendment\u00a0 <\/span>eliminating USDA Equity Diversity Commission:\u00a0 <\/span>210 \u2013 216 with 6 RINOs<\/span><\/a> allowing defeat of amendment<\/span><\/p>\n Clyde Amendment re Renaming Confederate Reconciliation Monument at Arlington National Cemetery\u00a0:\u00a0 <\/span>172 \u2013 261 with 48 RINOs<\/span><\/a> voting NO<\/span><\/p>\n Gaetz Amendment re\u00a0 <\/span>security assistance funding for Ukraine:\u00a0 <\/span>93 \u2013 339 with 126 RINOs\u2019<\/span><\/a> voting NO\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Gaetz Amendment w\/Dem support re banning cluster munitions:\u00a0 <\/span>160 (including 85 Rs and 75 Dems) \u2013 269 with 132 RINOs<\/span><\/a> \u2013 137 Dems voting NO)<\/span><\/p>\n