Democrat Pork Bill Fails

The pork-laden omnibus bill failed to pass the Senate and marked a significant victory for Republicans in the lame duck congress.

GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell called it a "victory for the country".  He's right, the bill was nothing short of a slap in the face to tax payers who voted for major change in November.  The people want less government and a reduced deficit, not wasteful government spending and increased regulation.

With his vote-count dwindling, a “sorry and disappointed” Reid took to the Senate floor to announce that he would pull his spending bill, caving to McConnell’s push to pass a simple, one-page resolution to continue government funding over the holiday recess. For full effect, in a move reminiscent of the health-care debates earlier this year, Republicans had hauled the entire 1,924-page cinder block of a bill onto the Senate floor. They’d come prepared for a showdown.

It seems the Democrats, Reid and Obama in particular, are incapable of grasping the ramifications of the November election.

The most significant ideological truth that has been revealed is that the Democrats do not believe in limited government.  I do not say this lightly or haphazardly.  Rather, every program, policy, infringement, and regulation can be justified by some "progressive" vision of what is needed to move society towards a utopia made perfect by an all knowing government run by benevolent bureaucrats.

The notion that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" has been rejected by Democrats.  In this rejection, the Democrats have also rejected the foundational values upon which the United States of America was founded.  As Reagan pointed, America is not a government with a people, rather America is a collection of people who happened to have formed a particular kind of government (a republic) to limit what government can and cannot do to individuals.

Government is not supposed to work smoothly or efficiently.  Instead, the republican system mandates compromise, methodical processes, and gradual changes.  Dictatorships facilitate lightning change and efficient law making, but this flies in the face of representation of the people and accountability to voters.