1.3 Trillion Things To Think About On A Sunday Morning

                The last budget Congress sent Obama contained “only” a 500 billion dollar deficit. A Republican controlled Congress just sent a Republican president a budget containing a trillion dollar deficit.

                And he signed it.

                I may be ready to take the next space shuttle to Mars.

                After signing the bill, President Trump said “There’s nobody more disappointed than me.”  I don’t know about that.

                If you see Democrats walking into walls today, or crossing the street against a red light with traffic squealing around them, or sitting at stop lights long after they’ve turned green it’s because they are in some sort of apoplectic shock that they got their way against all logical odds.  I figure Democrats must be even more confused than conservatives. They just got a budget that seems to fund everything from Planned Parenthood to grants to study the average length of tails on spider monkeys and they got it from a government controlled by the opposition and headed by a guy they hate more than Satan.

                There might be a line to catch that space shuttle.

                I knew on Wednesday something was wrong when I heard Chuck Schumer say this was a good bill and Nancy Pelosi put her Legos down long enough to agree with him and draw some pretty butterfly pictures with sidewalk chalk.

Then I saw an interview with Paul Ryan in which he agreed with them (which is not as big a shock as you might think unless you share my high level of disregard for spineless Paul Ryan) and tried to tell Americans that a $1.6 billion appropriation for a wall on our southern border was almost the same thing as the $25 billion the president asked for because we were only talking about a six-month budget.

Paul Ryan sucks.

A friend sent me an article this week by Dr. Charles Krauthammer who has been out of circulation most of this year for some surgery. Krauthammer has been a fairly outspoken critic of President Trump and has previously made his dislike for him very clear.

But in his article Krauthammer highlights his recognition of Trump as neither a Democrat or a Republican. He doesn’t even think Trump sees himself as a conservative and that he doesn’t see problems or issues as either liberal or conservative. He only sees them as problems that need to be fixed.

Krauthammer recognizes Trump as a pragmatist, simply practical and focused on reaching a goal in a straightforward, matter-of-fact manner without emotional distraction. Certainly he is unencumbered by the ideology of either party which has all but stood the Washington establishment on its ear and made him enemies in both camps because his approach is a devastating threat to the status quo (which is precisely why we voted for him, Doctor).

I agree with Krauthammer on Trump’s pragmatism. He doesn’t see immigration as a partisan issue he sees it as a threat to the security and safety of Americans. He doesn’t see the economy as red v. blue, he sees that we need jobs and growth for America to prosper. He doesn’t see “delicate trade negotiations” as apologetic, balance-of-power issues, he sees them as we need to reset agreements so America gets as good as it gives because that’s how a pragmatist does business.

So when he says “We had no choice but to fund our military,” I think he is saying that that consideration outweighs all the pork belly fat to fund every program every legislator from both sides could get slipped into the 2232-page document 15 hours before the vote. I think he figures to deal with that BS later.

And I happen to agree that an undefeatable military should be one of our very top priorities and is a key to maintaining some semblance of world peace.

In 1790 in the first address of the U.S. Congress ever, George Washington said, “To be prepared for war is the most effective means of preserving peace.” Those words are as true today as they were then.

So half--$654.6 billion—of that monstrous $1.3 trillion budget is to fund the military, including raises for one of this nation’s most valuable assets—its military personnel. Most accounts say that is the largest military budget in history and I say it is long overdue to begin to repair the devastation to this nation’s strength under Obama.

Ok, as distasteful as it is, if that’s what he was doing I can see Trump’s logic in securing the funding he wanted for what I think at the moment may be his true #1 priority. I don’t agree with everything Spineless Paul Ryan and Something-Else-Less Mitch McConnell gave away to get it but if I were in charge the government would be shut down and we’d be fighting and filibustering until the 32^nd of June trying to reach a compromise that made me happy.

Oh, and somebody explain to me how defending the situation of the DACA kids has now become a Republican cause that the Democrats have completely lost interest in because they don’t need to use 800,000 kids plus another million illegals at the moment to accomplish their objectives. Not when they have Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to do it for them.

I’ll send you a post card from Mars. Or maybe I’ll just get up and go to work tomorrow. I haven’t decided yet.