America, It's Time to Flush!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

We are now in the third week of the federal government shutdown and it appears as though no one of any consequence in Washington, DC, is in any hurry to end it.  Trump is being almost gleeful as he brags about shutting down "Democrat" programs and agencies (the ones that help those in need, and particularly the working poor), and as his minions try to find and weed out Democrats who are still employed by the government.   Trump reasons that he is making it personal for members of the Democratic Party because he falsely claims that they caused the shutdown - and some have been mean to him.

(One bit of good news this week has been that the Pentagon discovered some unused funds in it's books and will be able to meet the payroll of the military this payday.  It is very fortunate that Congress gives the Department of Defense more money than it can actually spend.)

What is perfectly clear with regard to the federal shutdown is that nobody is working to resolve the matter.  Each side seems perfectly content to just let it slide.  Trump will occasionally yammer incoherently on the subject but it's really not a hot-button issue to him because it doesn't affect him personally - and Trump, whose primary focus in life is "What's in it for me?," is not suffering personally from the freeze on federal spending.  His family is still selling crypto to important people, corporations, and governments around the world who want to curry (purchase) favor from the US President, his government paycheck still arrives on time, and, perhaps most importantly, his weekly golf outings are still being funded on the public dime.

That's right.  For the past two weekends in which the federal government has been shut down, Donald Trump and his entourage of hangers-on, functionaries, and secret service agents have headed out of town for weekends of golf at Trump golf courses and resorts where American taxpayers pick up the tab for their transportation, meals, and lodging.

Isn't it wonderful to know that the financial havoc being generated in Washington, DC, has not inconvenienced Donald Trump and his golf cart train of sycophants.  Praise Jesus and pass the Big Macs!

Of course it's not just Trump who is picking the public's pockets.  Congress has its own hands buried deep in our Levi's as well.  Congress is still getting paid, and for the past four weeks the House has been paid while on vacation.  Speaker Johnson is using the shutdown as an excuse for keeping Congress out of session.  That maneuver not only allows congressmen to dedicate more time to their most important function - raising campaign funds - it also gives Speaker Johnson a flimsy excuse for not swearing in the newest member of Congress - Representative Adelita Grijalva of Arizona, a Democrat who, when she is sworn in, will sign a discharge petition forcing the matter of releasing the Epstein files to the floor of the House - and thus compel every member of the House to vote on the record on whether to protect a dead pedophile and his living pervert associates, or to make their names public and let the law do its business.

(Ms. Grijalva was elected to Congress in a special election on September 23rd.  Today marks the 23rd day that Speaker Mike Johnson has blocked her from assuming her rightful seat in Congress - primarily to protect the scumbags who pleasured themselves with children provided by Jeffrey Epstein.   IT'S TIME THE SCUMBAGS WERE NAMED, SHAMED, AND PROSECUTED!)

Speaker Johnson says he will swear in Ms. Grijalva when the House goes back into regular session - at the end of the shutdown - but the House, of course, can't do its damned job while it is on yet another week of paid vacation - and the Senate's actions toward opening the government have so far been little more than perfunctory. 

Mike Johnson is shameful, Donald Trump is somewhere cheating on the back nine, and John Thune (the Majority Leader in the Senate) is headed to the gym.

But they are all still getting paid!

America, it's time to flush!