in World News “Political Theater”: Thomas Massie RIPS Republicans For “Pretending to Be Against” the Left’s push for a Totalitarian State During House Rules Committee Hearing
During a House Rules committee hearing on Monday, Rep. Thomas Massie criticized the ongoing political charade surrounding the impending spending bill and the inclusion of the SAVE Act. Massie described the situation as “political theater,” asserting that both Democrats and Republicans engage in a cycle of posturing and faux conflict.
“Can we be honest with the American people about what’s going on here? This is political theater,” Massie said. “I’m going to call out both sides right here. It’s all posturing, it’s fake fighting, we all know where it ends up,” he exclaimed.
Massie then proceeded to explain the repetitive process of Congress always green-lighting a temporary spending bill via a continuing resolution [CR], which in turn delays the omnibus spending bill until it eventually gets passed without the important policies that political actors pretended to be fighting for.
”And both parties are just fine letting the bureaucrats do their thing – which should be our thing according to Article 1 Section A in the constitution. We are empowered with these things. Most important of the things we do is the funding and that’s the big lever we have,” he said while proceeding to list off the bureaucratic failures in this country that have led to a totalitarian state such as the COVID response, the January 6th witch hunt, FBI corruption etc.
Most democrats are fine with this totalitarian state that the bureaucrats are pushing on us, but Republicans at least pretend to be against these things. But what are we going to do this September? We are going to fund every freaking one of those things that we have exposed.”