The continuing resolution died. Good.
As I said on radio yesterday, I understand Mike Johnson’s difficult position. He has a half-dozen Republicans who will not vote for any spending deal ever, and he has a three-seat majority. So he has to work with Democrats, and Democrats get to shape the package.
But it needed to die. It was too much.
Donald Trump wants a clean CR and an increase in the debt ceiling. I suspect the GOP will fight for that. If not, shut down the government. The media spent a year calling you guys Hitler and Hitler’s enablers. Who cares what they say now? There are two years before the next election. It won’t matter.
Meanwhile, while everyone was distracted by the House, the Senate just spent $200 billion in a terrible social security package in a bill the left and right both think is a terrible piece of legislation. But Elon and Vivek were silent.
Fight on all fronts.
On Another Matter
I’m getting ready to do my Christmas Eve show. I was dwelling on how the angels appeared to the shepherds. For the first time, it struck me in a way it had not.
Go back to the beginning. In the garden, at the fall, God announces the gospel for the first time. In Genesis 3:15, he declares to the serpent that Eve will have a son who will crush the serpent’s head, even as the serpent bruises the son’s heel.
When Eve gives birth, it is to a son that Adam names Cain, which is derived from “possession.” Cain was going to possess Eden again. He was going to make it whole. Abel’s name is often misunderstood but essentially means “meaningless.” In other words, Abel was the meaningless, expendable son. Cain was the one who’d retake the garden and crush the serpent’s head. Instead, he crushes Abel’s head.
Cain, being the favored child, got to work the land he would possess. Abel had to tend to the animals because he was worthless. Fast forward thousands and thousands of years, and who does God first declare His return to? The shepherds tending their flocks — the Abels, the meaningless men whose testimony was not even allowed in court.
Christ reverberates through history, from the Garden to now. And he finds meaning and purpose in those who may find no meaning in their lives. He restores souls. Christmas is coming. Get ready.
