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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Feather grass resists the urge to grow where kilted cynics fritter away the night.
Just in time for Christmas — another congressional dereliction of duty vis-à-vis American taxpayers.
The United States Congress — ostensibly a functional branch of a representative republic — long ago ceded many of its responsibilities. Members of both parties prefer grandstanding hearings and photo-ops to crafting any legislation that might be helpful to the people they’re supposed to be representing. Any legislation that would withstand scrutiny, that is. That’s one of the reasons that we’ve seen an uptick in presidential executive actions for so long now.
It seems that the only time our non-representative representatives take an interest in playing congresspeople is when they’re working on a ghastly omnibus bill or a continuing resolution to keep the government open.
This is the part where we all say to each other, “Who cares if the government is open or not?” We’ve all been on the same page regarding that for a long time.
Well, here we are again — it’s continuing resolution time….
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