Dusty Johnson voted to crash the government yesterday.
Wait: Dusty Johnson voted to rebuke Donald Trump’s fiscal hypocrisy.
Wait, wait: Dusty Johnson voted against RINO capitulation to Nancy Pelosi and her spend-happy liberals.
Pick your spin—the fact is, South Dakota’s lone Congressman joined two thirds of his caucus and sixteen House Democrats in voting against the Pelosi-Trump two-year budget deal. That resistance wasn’t enough: the final vote was 284 to 149.
Governing is about compromise, so I don’t need a perfect deal. Our country has a serious deficit problem, though, and this deal moves us in the wrong direction. I’m voting no.
— Rep. Dusty Johnson (@RepDustyJohnson) July 25, 2019
Congressman Johnson wasn’t dismayed enough to Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie’s motion to amend the title of the budget deal to “A bill to kick the can down the road, and for other purposes.” That amendment (which I would have wholeheartedly supported) failed 47–384.
House members went home a day early for their six-week August vacation. Senators will stick around and vote on the budget deal sometime soon.
His side lost by 150 votes, so a no vote wasn’t really an emphatic vote for fiscal conservatism and didn’t require any bravery on his part.
Show real cojones and slash defense wasteful spending by half a trillion bucks.
“Show real cojones and slash defense wasteful spending by half a trillion bucks.”
Raise the marginal tax over $1 million to 70% while you’re in the process of displaying your reproductive parts.
Keep slashing, this time make it 90% of the tax loopholes that benefit those whose annual income surpasses $500,000.
Next boost social security payments by 25% while removing taxable income caps. Do the same with disability benefits.
What else do we want to see Mike, in addition to Dustmop’s genitals?