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Will Trump Make the GOP the Majority Party?
The problem with a two-party democratic system is every time there’s an election, either you win, or you lose. And if your party loses control of either Congressional chamber, if you happen to be a member of the losing party even if you retain your own seat, you’re dogshit until the next election, or what Grandpa would say ‘fartig,’ (read: finished.)
This past weekend, Congress finished up the usual squabbling over the budget and sent Joe a budget deal which got the vote of every member of the Democrat(ic) caucus in both houses which was enough, along with a couple of GOP members in the House (including Marjorie Taylor Greene) to get the whole thing done.
Even Trump kept his goddamn mouth shut on this one because if you’re the minority party and you get blamed for keeping all the doors of those federal office buildings shut, there’s a good chance you’ll be the dogshit party for at least the next two years.
We have the largest percentage of our national workforce on government payrolls of any advanced country, including all those so-called ‘socialist’ countries in the OECD. Know what’s the number one job category in California? Try school bus driver, and don’t think the money to pay those men and women who pick up the little darlings and routinely hold up traffic during the morning rush hour comes from some local…