House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., eagerly brands President Trump “immoral, unethical, corrupt, and unpatriotic.” Her fellow magazine cover model, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., calls him not “human,” and half her caucus calls for his political head via impeachment pleas.
For his part, Trump resorts to his favorite form of insults: nicknames. The speaker is “High Tax, High Crime” and “MS-13 Lover” Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate minority leader is “Cryin’ Chuck,” “Fake Tears” Chuck, and “Head Clown Chuck Schumer.”
Yet as much as there may appear to be no love lost among our national party leaders, make no mistake. They’re completely united when it comes to spending your money on programs no one wants and regulating things everybody likes.
Chuck and Nancy say they’ve agreed to a $2 trillion infrastructure deal with Trump. Yes, that’s a $1 trillion increase from what Trump and former White House chief strategist and current has-been Steve Bannon once wanted, but who’s counting?
Even the Left admit that Obamacare’s a bust, with most of the 2020 field calling on abolishing the whole thing and replacing the entire private health insurance industry with Medicare for All. Republicans, many of whom were elected to office on promises to repeal and replace the monstrosity with an actual free-market solution, are now keen to join Democrats in pumping tens of billions of dollars back to the health insurance cartel in the form of cost-sharing reduction subsidies.
And Republicans and Democrats are still willing to engage in a detente to raise the minimum age to purchase any tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, which may be the single greatest tool to get long-term smokers to quit. So you can operate two-ton vehicles at age 16 and die for your country at age 18, but you can’t have a beer or a cigar until age 21. Got it!
Every once in a blue moon, bipartisanship produces incredible results, such as the First Step Act that Trump signed into law last year. But most of the time, bipartisanship is the dirtiest word in Washington. Let it serve as a reminder that people in power will happily waste your money and control your personal decisions with full cooperation from across the aisle.
