How Refreshing

Trump is proposing a budget plan that would balance the budget in fifteen years.

Anyone remember when Republicans used to care about a balanced budget?  Remember when the Republican party made statements every year about how we were plunging headlong into debt that we couldn't recover from?

Of course, it was all words.  When they had the House, Senate and White House in 2004, what did they do with it?  Spend, spend, spend, baby!  And Obama made them look like a piker with his spending, but by then they had stopped all pretense of passing a budget and just rammed through massive, bloated Continuing Resolutions every year.

Paul Ryan put the nail in that particular coffin, when he bent over and sucked Obama's dick like a good little pussy when he became Speaker of the House.  And even after Trump got elected in 2016, Paul Ryan refused to put forth a budget, or even have a fight about the budget, even with Republican control of Congress and the Presidency.

I honestly believe that this is part of the reason the Republicans lost control of the House in 2018.  Why the hell should any R get support when all the do is act like a D?  When Trump was elected, how many bills were ready to go for his signature when he sat down in the White House?

None.  Zip, zilch, zero.  Budget?  Ha!  Reform bills?  Ha!  Anything that actually pushes forward a common-sense conservative agenda?  HA!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  I don't know if the Democrats had photos of Paul Ryan in compromising positions or what, but he did everything they wanted him to do, while shafting the Republicans who put him in his position.  He's gone now, far too late.  Same with Jeff Flake.  Same with John F'n Boehner.  Granny Rictus McWinebox is in control, at least until Election 2020.  We'll see what happens then.  Maybe we'll get people who actually care about representing the voters in office.

Maybe Trump can actually get them to do their jobs.  Maybe that's just a dream.