A Money Saving Proposal

 donnie and the Dildos are all in a white-hot sweat saving money.

They are firing vast swathes of Federal Workers.

And that saves a lot of money.

A few billion here, a few billion there - that can mount up to real money.

One could pose an obvious question: who's going to do all the work that those folks were doing?

The answer uniformly from the Project 2025 crowd is that it's all un-needed busy work.

"We don't need that shit goin' on around here" is heard constantly in the halls of MAGA Land.

OK; fine; I'll take those savings and run.

While we are at it, I suggest that we look into another area where we could save a LOT.

The House initiates spending.

The Senate can add its thoughts on spending, but that's the job of the House.

The Senate, though, ratifies treaties and confirms military appointments.

And they both do tariffs.

They both do a lot of other things, also, but those are the kinda important stuff each is assigned.

For years whether they do that or the president does that has become unclear.

And recently it's been all the president.

In nine moths he's done and undone tariffs and done an undone treaties with Canada and the rest so many times no one really has a count.

He has hired and fired so many Generals and Admirals we have barely had time to see if any of them are fat or bearded.

And he has declared and commenced war on indeterminate entities in South America and cut a treaty with a death camp in El Salvador.

He has tried and failed several times to cut a private real estate deal with the Russian dictator, the real estate belonging - inconveniently - to Ukraine.

One can only wonder what portions of Alaska that he has in mind to cede in that package.

And he has broken the law so many times that a daily tally needs to be posted to track the Court Cases.

Those zones have all been flooded.

But clearly seeable in the surging cataracts of that flood is that it's the president who is doing all of that, not Congress.

So what functional purpose has Congress?

What is their value add?

During the Constitutional Convention in 1787 James Madison said "Some provision should be made for defending the community against the incapacity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate... He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers".

And so the product of that Convention, the Constitution of the United States, assigned two powers:

• To the House the power of impeachment (indictment)

• To the Senate the power of trial

Those may be Congress' most important power, and a power that can't be delegated, and surely can't be ignored.

In spite of massive and manifest incapacity, negligence and perfidy of the chief Magistrate no thought of impeachment and therefore control of that chief magistrate is being considered.

Instead, the republicans in the Senate attend chummy hate breakfasts thrown by that magistrate.

Within ear and eye shot of the demolition of a major part of the people's house.

And the republicans in the House are on an extended vacation (something about a dispute about releasing some files).

Absent any functional purpose to Congress, I suggest we apply Project 2025 Math, Logic and rhetoric.

They cost cumulatively, fully loaded with staff, travel and incidentals 5 billion dollars a year.

"We don't need that shit goin' on around here".

And don't get me started about the supreme court.