COMMENTARY_ As 118th Congress debuts, still no excuse for shameful omnibus surrender

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As 118th Congress debuts, still no excuse for shameful omnibus surrender

Republican senators need to get their act together

Republican senators and the omnibus bill debt crisis illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times more >

COMMENTARY


By Peter Parisi - - Wednesday, January 4, 2023

OPINION:


“With friends like these, who needs enemies?” is an observation attributed to the late comedian and New York Post “Strictly for Laughs” columnist Joey Adams.

After the Dec. 22 betrayal by 18 Senate Republicans of their House GOP colleagues — to say nothing of Republican voters — in inexplicably helping Democrats ram through a disgracefully pork-laden $1.85 trillion omnibus spending bill, Adams’ quote should be “revised and extended” — to borrow some Congress-speak — to “With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?”

As the curtain rose Tuesday on the GOP-controlled House in the 118th Congress, there still hasn’t been a plausibl e— much less defensible — explanation for why those 18 Senate Republicans would willingly kneecap their House counterparts, siding instead with all 47 Senate Democrats (and their three nominally “independent” allies) voting in lockstep to pass the beyond-bloated budget bill.

While many of the 18 were the usual RINO suspects, there were others whose votes for the blunderbuss omnibus were both shocking and disheartening:

Roy Blunt, Missouri (since replaced by Eric Schmitt)
John Boozman, Arkansas
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Susan Collins, Maine
John Cornyn, Texas
Tom Cotton, Arkansas
Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
James Inhofe, Oklahoma
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Jerry Moran, Kansas
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
Rob Portman, Ohio (since replaced by J.D. Vance)
Mitt Romney, Utah
Mike Rounds, South Dakota
Richard Shelby, Alabama (since replaced by Katie Britt)
John Thune, South Dakota
Roger Wicker, Mississippi
Todd Young, Indiana

In so doing, these 18 GOP senators effectively surrendered House Republicans’ “power of the purse” ability to rein in the excesses of the Biden administration for the remainder of the fiscal year.

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