On Hugh Hewitt’s radio Thursday, National Review columnist Mark Steyn
gave a scathing rebuke to the U.S. federal government on the heels of
its reopening on earlier in the day.
Steyn, author of “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,” told
Hewitt it was understandable that Republicans like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
and his allies in the U.S. Senate would call for Republicans in the
House of Representatives to use the power of the purse to pursue certain
policy positions.
“Well look, you know, in my book when it came out, whatever it was, a
couple of years ago, it had a very simple point, that the question was
whether the governing institutions of the United States of America were
capable of meaningful course correction,” Steyn explained. “And I think
we’ve just seen, whether you fall on Jonah [Goldberg]’s side or on your
side, the net result is that we keep telling the world that we’re not
capable of serious course correction. And that’s a problem. And I well
understand why people like Ted Cruz get impatient with it. They’re right
to be impatient with it.”
“Right now, the governing institutions of the United States are
utterly repulsive and disgusting,” he continued. “This bipartisan bill
agreed yesterday includes $175,000 dollars to the widow of the late
senator, Frank Lautenberg, because apparently, it’s the tradition of the
Senate to give significant six-figure payments to the widows of
distinguished senators. Why is that in this bill? It’s nothing to do
with this bill. And that’s why government, more spending, more debt,
another trillion dollars as we float free of the debt ceiling, we’re
telling the world that this is just the way it is now. No serious course
correction can be mounted by America’s governing institutions. That’s a
hell of a message.”
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