In March 2022, I criticized a Congressional omnibus bill that was more than 2,700 pages long. Now, in the lame duck session, the Senate is considering a massive omnibus government spending bill that is more than 4,100 pages long. Details on that bill are here with links to the entire bill and top line summaries for the government agencies.
I will not repeat the arguments made in my earlier Bull Elephant article about how enacting such omnibus legislation is unreasonable and outrageous. Those arguments are equally applicable to the current proposed massive government spending bill.
There are additional reasons why it is shameful and unconscionable that Senator Mitchell McConnell (R-KY) and other Republican Senators appear ready to vote for the 4,100 page monstrosity. Any Republican Senator willing to vote for the current legislative monstrosity demonstrates he or she:
(1) is foolishly and recklessly throwing away any opportunity for the Republican House majority taking office in January 2023 to have input on government spending for the Fiscal Year 2023;
(2) lacks any meaningful sense of Republican Party principles;
(3) lacks the courage to stand and fight for Republican Party principles;
(4) has contempt for, or is indifferent to, the concerns and interests of people who voted for Republicans;
(5) has contempt for, or is indifferent to, the concerns and interests of the millions of Americans who have indicated in numerous polls that they believe the United States is heading in the wrong direction;
(6) is acting as a witting or unwitting enabler for the Senate Democrats and the Biden Administration; or
(7) is acting because of some combination of the reasons above.
Voting for the more than 4,100 page omnibus appropriations bill is not an act of statesmanship or reasonable compromise — it is a shameful and abject surrender to the priorities and policies of the Democratic Party and the Biden Administration, and an insult to the American people.
Any Senate Republican who votes to pass the 4,100 page omnibus monstrosity deserves the scorn and contempt of their constituents and deserves to be thrown out of office by the voters as soon as possible. If they do not have the decency to resign, they should stop calling themselves Republicans and switch over to the Democratic Party that they seem so willing to accommodate and facilitate.
Americans should not have to suffer the dismal consequences of a dysfunctional Congress whose members are unwilling or unable to carry out their legislative duties in a proper and responsible manner. Any Member of Congress who does not firmly resist and refuse to cooperate with the process of passing irresponsible omnibus legislation (1) demonstrates he or she is unfit for office, and (2) should be removed from office by his or her constituents as soon as possible.
Voters should show them the door in ‘24 — and for as many future elections as it takes to get a Congress that functions in a reasonable and proper manner.
