"Best we could do": the refrain of the spineless

A lot of leftists aren't nearly as savvy as they flatter themselves into thinking they are.  Do you run into this?  Posts on social media that lump all Republicans together?  Cartoons and one-liners that indicate that Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Louis Gohmert are all cut from the same cloth?

Will that continue to be the case now that the Pub establishment has delivered what may be its biggest betrayal of conservatives to date?  How much phone-melting, column-writing, direct-mailing and radio-show-thundering do we need to do to put the lie to such a notion?

What we - that is, committed devotees of freedom and the preservation of Western civilization  - said with our ballots on November 4 is being rendered null and void by our ostensible leaders.  They've shown themselves to be utterly rudderless.  You couldn't embrace actual principles and come up with this:

Those Republicans on the Rules Committee—who will provide the procedural cover Boehner needs to get the Obama executive amnesty backing bill onto the House floor—are: Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rob Bishop (R-UT), Tom Cole (R-OK), Rob Woodall (R-GA), Richard Nugent (R-FL), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Michael Burgess (R-TX). If any of them votes to advance the bill to the floor, they are in effect endorsing everything contained within the legislation—including the never-ending funding for Obama’s executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

The Rules Committee mark-up hearing is set to begin at 3 p.m. and will be broadcast live on C-SPAN. 

Heritage Action says that the bill is a “blank check” for Obama’s amnesty. That’s because, despite 451 other instances where funding is blocked in the legislation—several of which, according to the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard, are on fee-based entities despite claims from some Republicans like Pete Sessions and House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) that Republicans can’t touch that type of thing—there is no attempt to block funding for Obama’s executive amnesty.

The monstrosity that contains this also fully funds the "Affordable" Care Act.

A trillion dollars.  And, remember, it's play money.  We're over $18 trillion in debt.

How long do the cowards and mush-brains get to keep using this as an excuse?

“It’s the best we could do without the optics of a government shutdown,” Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., said. “That’s the thing, obviously, leadership is most concerned with in both chambers. And let’s face it, Republicans get blamed every time.”

"The optics of a government shutdown."  There were ways to avoid such a juncture, which we've discussed here.

This is a lesson in a lot more than the ways of Washington.  The essential truth to be gleaned is that fealty to principles sometimes exacts a price.  You must endure some gritty, even searing, moments if they are really your principles and not a load of jive you mouth at election time.

We got a few hours of elation on election night and now we're back to the same disgust and rage that fueled our course of action through the entire cycle just concluded.

Our enemies are legion, and not all of them wear their hostility to us as uniforms.  Some wear uniforms deceptively similar to our battle gear.  Those, you can tell by their odor.