Notus Asked GOP Senators about President Musk and his wrecking crew. They’re more than fine with it:
“He’s doing exactly what he should be doing,” Florida Sen. Rick Scott said Monday night. “He’s going through every agency and looking at how to make sure the money’s spent right.”
Wait, isn’t that explicitly the role of Congress?
“It doesn’t look like Congress is doing their job,” Scott answered simply.
And sure, there may be a little bit of Constitutional hanky-panky but it’s really no biggie:
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, even acknowledged that what Musk is doing is unconstitutional — but “nobody should bellyache about that.”
“That runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense,” Tillis said. But “it’s not uncommon for presidents to flex a little bit on where they can spend and where they can stop spending.”
They all seem completely unworried about the fact that the un-elected billionaire drug-addled freak Elon Musk has sent in a bunch of little kids to mess around with the computer systems because they are “holding people accountable.” You can’t make this up:
“The actions that have been taken with USAID are long overdue,” Sen. Bill Hagerty said. “The agency is out of control.”
And Sen. John Hoeven said “they need to be accountable.”
“They’re somehow operating like they’re this independent agency doing their own thing,” he claimed.
Who’s operating like an independent agency? WTF???
Here’s Senator Cornpone Leghorn:
“Mr. Musk is acting under the authority of the president of the United States,” Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters. “It’s perfectly legal, perfectly constitutional. And the issue, anyway, is not process. The issue is substance. Did they find wasteful spending, or not?”
It is not legal. And Musk’s idea of “finding wasteful spending” is to say that USAIF must die. very thoughtful.
It’s all perfectly fi9ne:
“He’s working with the president, and they’re making recommendations in some cases on agencies,” South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds told NOTUS. “But the whole program here is that we’re spending way more money than what we’re bringing in.”
Nope, that’s not true. Musk is operating independently doing whatever he wants while the orange dementia patient in the White House is ordering the Corps of Engineers to waste 2 billion gallons of water in California because he can’t understand how anything works.
They are completely in the tank. And at the risk of repeating the most boring comment in the world — imagine what they would be saying if Joe Biden or Barack Obama did this?
As one reader said to me today, “this is the continuation of the January 6th attempted coup.” This is correct. And the Republicans in the Congress are all in.