By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--February 28, 2024
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The deadline approaches (yet again) for the House to weigh what must be done regarding government funding.
This Congress has done nothing to restrict, let alone rollback, or restore spending to pre-Covid levels. Instead, what was supposedly a republican majority in the House has allowed itself to be rolled by uniparty saboteurs.
With the current budget (if it could be called that) adding one trillion dollars to the deficit approximately every 100 days, there is no time left to play numbers games, nor will the populace tolerate it.
When he landed the seat after McCarthy’s ouster, Speaker Mike Johnson made what is hoped was not an empty promise to abandon all future continuing resolutions. Thus far, he has waffled in his pledge and, against the will of the majority of constituents, championed a short-term CR that is coming to an end this week.
In the view of two-thirds of Americans, according to mainstream pollsters, the end of the road has been reached. There are no more detours available.
Despite the Biden administration braying that there has been no crisis on the border – both borders now – legal citizens realize that it’s not perfectly normal to tally four to five thousand migrant encounters a day at the southern crossings alone. And that does not include the thousands of “gotaways” that avoid ports of entry to engage in illegal activities. Hispanics are now speaking with a majority voice to close the border.
Adding to the those numbers some 44,000 Chinese nationals that Secretary Mayorkas has ushered into the country over the last three years, there is good reason to be alarmed. These are well supplied, generally strapping young men who represent the worst totalitarian regime in the world today. To believe that they “escaped” from the CCP to seek “a better life” is nonsensical and insupportable.
Pressure from Biden and the republic-despising “leaders” in Congress – Schumer, Jeffries and the faithless McConnell – all drama queens crying about the tragic destruction of Ukraine while enabling the catastrophic invasion of the United States, must be ignored by Speaker Johnson. House GOP has the duty to stand against the corruption of this administration and its congressional toadies, and unwaveringly support Johnson to keep him from caving to the illegitimate narrative that Ukraine is important to the USA.
Democrats and their republican partners in crime haven’t let up their refrain that Ukraine’s consequence is superior to that of this nation, that Europe will fall to the Russians if America doesn’t subsidize the futile battle. If that were true, then Europe would feel some compunction to defend itself.
Proving that isn’t true is the EU’s noncommittal attitude that Putin is a real danger. Otherwise, the EU would take measures to protect its borders, and itself supply Ukraine with aid rather than irresponsibly exploiting America’s good nature.
Americans have spoken loudly that they will not suffer one dime more being sent into the financial sieve that is Ukraine’s corrupt government.
It appears that it will take extreme action to turn off the spigot of billions of debt-generated dollars flowing through Ukraine’s ripped pockets, the money instantly and unaccountably disappearing.
That action is simple and must be accomplished despite democrats’ yowling like cats on a neighborhood fence – all noise and no fight. Just posturing, hissing, and spitting epithets.
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That action is no action. Speaker Johnson must stand for America’s needs first and foremost, and let the nonessential departments of government close their doors for a time. Services necessary to the government’s operation continue while the “useless eaters,” otherwise known as federal employees, are sent home to contemplate their overrated value to this nation’s functioning.
Force the issue that the border must be sealed, so those that have maneuvered themselves into positions of authority are confronted with the real power of this nation – We The People.
No options are left. No negotiations are possible with those (democrats) whose definition of compromise is the other party’s total capitulation.
The People have Speaker Johnson’s back for this battle plan and this only. The whole republican Congress must stand in accordance. No retreat, no surrender.
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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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