George Rebane

The Republican debate about the Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) goes on after it squeaked out of the Senate with the VP’s vote.  A quick look at the alternatives shows that the debate involves no reasonable alternative to the BBB.  Everyone except the economically ignorant leftwingers in the country knows that the only solution to our national debt problem (crisis?) is through the strong growth of our economy.  And that level of growth – annually 3-5% – is necessary to make ongoing deficits and debt growth manageable.  Higher levels of growth, albeit not likely, will make the debt problem irrelevant.

All, save of the Left, who have been paying attention know that we cannot tax or redistribute ourselves out of debt, and that reducing spending requires the politically impossible and massive reduction of legally entrenched entitlements.  Given these constraints, the Republican opponents of BBB’s passage must quietly be hoping for a Plan B from heaven because no one on this planet has a clue on how to gin up and get anything else through this congress.  If they blow it now and the BBB dies in the House, the Republicans have had it – they have dashed all hope and given birth to the biggest political disappointment in the country’s history.

Without passage of the BBB we will be heading for a financial and governance crisis under the resurgent Democrats who are eager to reduce America into a second rate socialist country and reexperience all the economic catastrophes of the Europeans.  A harbinger of this is Zohran Mamdavi, Democratic candidate for NYC mayor.  What continues to disappoint me is that the talking heads on Fox keep telling us that they simply don’t understand how so many NYC Gen Zers have voted for the communist in the primary.  The answer is beyond obvious, they are the third generation educated in Great Society union-controlled, socialist public schools ranging from kindergarten through academia.  To them socialism, not free market capitalism, is the preferred form of governance and organizing society.  It would be good if the conservative media had the wits and balls to regularly report this sad attribute of our voting public.

Bottom line message to all Republican congress critters – unless you know of a Plan B that has better than a snowball’s chance in hell of passage, vote for the goddam BBB!