In a Times Picayune article of 3/25 by Drew Broach concerning the $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by the republican controlled Senate last Friday, Cassidy and Kennedy confirmed what PolitiDose has been saying for years. That both of them like their party are hypocrites and that republicans do a poor job of governing and in the end, the country and its people pay a steep price.
The $1.3 trillion spending bill will take the federal government through the current fiscal year which ends 9/30/18. The bill passed on a bipartisan vote with both republicans and democrats able to obtain increases in both military and domestic spending. The bill had to be passed by last Friday to avoid another government shutdown. The bill was handled in a way that gave members of the senate little or no time to read the 2232 page bill.
Cassidy and Kennedy voted against the bill and were hypocritical in their comments about the bill increasing deficit spending and the national debt. They are right of course but they still voted for Trump's tax cut that will increase deficit spending and debt more than the $1.3 trillion spending bill they voted against. It is the same old republican rhetoric.
Both Cassidy and Kennedy also confirm that the republican party are poor at governing with the following comments: "Its easy to spend money but hard to set priorities." "The senate was given less than 24 hours to review the Bill." "Everyone who participated in this process ought to put a bag over their heads." "There was an easy solution to this mess. The senate could have been allowed to amend the budget bill in order to reduce wasteful spending. Instead we were kept in the dark. There was no communications and no collaboration."
The reader should keep in mind it was the republican controlled senate who managed the bill all the way and set the rules. Cassidy and Kennedy did not realize it but they confirmed with their own comments what PolitiDose has reported for many years. The republicans are THE hypocritical party and the WORST at governing. The reason they rushed through the spending bill with out the proper debate was to avoid another crisis shutdown which was unnecessary to begin with. The party has several different factions and all claim to be some type of conservatives, but the record confirms they are not.
Cassidy and Kennedy are no friends of Louisiana or its people. Mary Landrieu's past support for our state and its people are sadly missed. And so is the fact that the last administrations to balance the federal budget and leave office with a smaller deficit than when they took office was President's Clinton and Obama, both democrats. No republican has achieved either since President Eisenhower in 1960.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
