Michelle Malkin looks at the continuing-resolution bill that will be up for a vote in Congress next week. It's one of those instances that has Pub "leadership" squaring off against those who are trying with all their might to inject some principle and sense of reality into our nation's legislative proceedings.
Nothing, not even the most laudible steps forward, that has been done to curb spending addresses the real magnitude of what we face.
This is a condition - at its root a spiritual shortcoming, a collective failure of character - that afflicts the entire West. Look at Europe. The obviously failing economies are pretty much demanding that the ones that are doing fairly well (Germany, mainly) cough up what is needed to keeping them from descending into irreversible chaos.
I commend the Republican Study Committee, the Jeff Flakes and the Ron Johnsons, for standing their ground in the face of that whole "this-is-the-best-we-can-do-given-the-current-realities-of-Washington" mentality that John Boehner unfortunately falls prey to with depressing frequency. Still, let us acknowledge that the whole thing is a case of nibbling at the edges.
It's the saddest of spectacles. Ostensible grown-ups in suits and dresses, holding meetings and signing agreements, but plainly sending the message that this great civilization we've built over the last four thousand years apparently can't be saved from its self-destructive impulses.
It's very late in the day.
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