You remember that time Republicans said they couldn't stop Democratic spending if they were a minority in Congress, so conservatives elected them to a majority?

You remember that time the Republican said they couldn't stop Democratic spending if they were a minority in the Senate, so conservatives elected them to a majority?

Do you remember that time Republicans said they couldn't stop Democratic spending if they didn't have the White House, since the president could just use the bully pulpit to blame Republicans for a government shutdown. So conservatives elected Trump president? Yeah, Republicans were lying.

Republicans now have the opportunity to pass continuing funding for the federal government through

the budget process. This would be an excellent time to make approval of funding contingent on

defunding of various Democratic priorities. After all, if Democrats

attempt to shut down the government, presumably President Trump can rail against them by publicly

blaming them for harming Americans, just like Obama did to Republicans. But that's not what's

happening. As Daniel Horowitz writes at Conservative Review, Senate Republicans have not only

guaranteed Democrats, they will give them all the policies and spending levels in the budget bill,

but they will also jettison the president's request for a supplemental spending bill for construction of the border wall, along with spending offsets.

So, what kind of garbage are Republicans funding this time in order to avoid a government shutdown fight?

You'd remember the same kind of fight they said a minority party could never win back in 2013 when Ted Cruz tried to defund Obamacare. First, they're going to keep funding for Planned Parenthood. So five minutes ago, President Trump was tweeting about how the Freedom Caucus had maintained federal funding for Planned Parenthood by not going along with Trump care. Now we learn that according to the Hill, Paul Ryan, quote, sought to avoid another political landmine on Tuesday by arguing that language defunding Planned Parenthood should be kept out of the spending legislation. He now says instead he wants to defund Planned Parenthood for reconciliation. So do it, Speaker Ryan. What is stopping you aside from your own political cowardice? Second, they said that they're going to keep funding for Obamacare. So, Republicans had time after time during the Obama administration that if they kept funding continuing buzzet resolutions, they'd be funding Obamacare. Now the Republicans control the whole process, and they're still going to fund Obamacare. Why? Because the Democrats might shut down the government. Senator Dick Durbin said that Republicans would be blamed for a shutdown because they control all the branches of the government. But we were told by Republicans that minority parties shutting down the government damages minority parties. So what the hell? Finally, apparently they're not going to fund the Trump wall. Republicans now say they won't provide the $3 billion of funding requested by the Trump administration to build a border wall, which was, of course, Trump's top campaign promise.

They won't do it because they're afraid of democratic filibuster.

Of course.

So, it appears that the new standard for Republicans is that the government must never shut down

under any circumstances, which doesn't actually make them very different from Democrats,

does it?

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Okay, so I want a lot to get to today. I'm going to begin today with the meltdown in the Democratic Party,

the kind of self-immolation of the Democratic Party, but then we have to get to the self-immolation

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