Rush on the Budget Extension and K Street

As has been reported elsewhere, the Republicans in the house passed a budget that covers the remaining fiscal year, which takes us to September of 2017. But contrary to the will of the voters who elected those Republicans to advance the Trump agenda, few of those priorities were funded and in fact, many of the agenda items of the new administration were either not funded at all or were funded only in the most limited way. Given that Republicans ostensibly control a majority of seats in both the house and the senate, one has to wonder why the party seems so unwilling to work seriously on the Trump agenda.

In this excerpt from Rush’s radio show, he concludes that the answer is money. The Washington establishment has control of and access to incredible sums of money, much of which ends up in the pockets of politicians of both parties in exchange for legislation that advances the interests of big money donors and numerous special interests. These individuals have no incentive to change things, regardless of election results and so nothing gets done. Politicians are reluctant to rock the boat because they like the riches that flow their way and they do not want to see their incomes cut off.

This, of course, presents a problem for the regular voters of the nation. How does one advance an agenda when your representatives are for sale to the highest bidder who isn’t you? In the end, voters are going to have to find a way to cut off this money supply for good, otherwise, we will never have any say so about what happens to us. A constitutional amendment banning all lobbying by current and former government employees might be a good start.

Donald Trump won the election and he ran and won on a series of issues, and all of them are embodied in this budget, and not a one of these things did Donald Trump seek the presidency by saying he was going to continue. The one thing that is not paid for in this budget is the one thing that Trump made one of his top two vote-getters, and that’s building the wall. And that, of course, is related to immigration.

So what explains this? Why hasn’t there been a flood of legislation emanating from the Republicans in the House and the Senate to begin the process of implementing the Trump agenda? I know, I’ve answered my question. I’m doing this in a rhetorical sense to set up a premise. As I’ve stated many times, the Washington establishment’s totally opposed to Trump. They don’t want anything that Trump campaigned on to happen. They don’t want an outsider coming in and succeeding and thereby demonstrating how it can be done.

Nobody on the outside is supposed to be able to come in and reform Washington and improve it. The establishment has set it up so they have an exclusive, exclusionary club that very few people are capable or qualified to be part of, and that’s that. So the last thing they can afford is for somebody like Trump, who’s not a politician by trade, to come in after winning an election and totally turn the town upside down. They will not do it.