The federal government is very good at creating acronyms. However, what the federal government is terrible at doing is accounting for the money it spends.
Despite spending nearly $2 billion on government-spending watchdog alphabet agencies, such as the OIG, or Office of the Inspector General, and GAO, or the Government Accountability Office, it took President Donald Trump’s creation of an independent nonaligned auditor called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to identify wasteful and possibly corrupt federal expenditures. It is headed by the technical and business genius Elon Musk.
Democrats in Congress have become apoplectic at the idea that Trump has engaged the services of an independent person to conduct an audit of federal expenditures. The reasons for this have become quite obvious in recent days. Spending tax dollars is the engine that powers the Democratic Party’s political machine. Anything that jeopardizes this engine jeopardizes their power.
Not surprisingly, it took very little time for Musk to find billions of taxpayer dollars being spent extravagantly, frivolously, wastefully — and, possibly, even corruptly. He informed Trump of this, and Trump ordered a freeze on spending.
This drove House and Senate Democrats off a cliff. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) led a group of Democratic politicians and a crowd of presumably government employees, whose livelihoods depend on government spending, in a protest. The demonstration quickly degenerated into calls by left-wing politicians for violent mob action.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) wanted the mob to “get into the faces” of Republicans. There were chants to shut down the Senate. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called for Democrats to fight in the streets — just like their ideological ancestors, the socialists and communists, did. And it happened about a week after a lunatic planned to murder congressional Republicans with Molotov cocktails.
The battle lines are now clearly drawn. On one side is the radical Democratic Left. It represents those who lust for government power, the party whose very existence depends on increasing the size and scope of government and whose members depend on government largesse for their livelihood. They are the people who fly flags with the sickle and hammer. They are the people who riot and destroy everything from urban communities to college campuses. They support socialism and neo-Marxism, the tenets of which are critical race theory, transgender ideology, hatred of Western civilization and American culture, and antipathy toward religion.
On the other side are the Republicans, who believe the government serves the people. They are the party that believes, as Founding Father James Madison did, that the interests of men must be connected with constitutional rights. They support the ideals that emphasize the notion that government is a reflection of human nature. As Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” The problem is that one “must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
The Republican Party represents Main Street, the Forgotten Person, social conservatism, fiscal responsibility, freedom from fear, freedom from poverty, freedom to worship, and freedom from war. It reveres the triumphs of Western civilization and American culture, accomplishments of human civilization that have improved the quality of life for all.
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Simply put, DOGE is the latest manifestation of one political party’s efforts to prevent the other from using America’s treasure to spread its toxic ideals while pursuing greater influence and power.
The idea of DOGE is at the root of cherished American values. Madison would be happy.