...every time you hear the phrase white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
have spent the past month pretending the crisis is all the GOP's fault, Fetterman has blown up that narrative by calling it what it is: self-inflicted chaos.
In a stunning interview with CNN
...formerly the
Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
's Manu Raju, Fetterman didn't just criticize the Democratic Party line—he bulldozed it. ''Americans are not leverage,'' he said, as food assistance programs teetered on collapse with SNAP benefits hours away from drying up. ''This is not some sh—y gameshow about who's winning or whatever.''
While Fetterman knows what's what, his party has been shouting from the rooftops that Republicans own the shutdown because they hold the House, Senate, and White House. But that talking point falls apart under scrutiny. The truth is, Democrats are the ones filibustering the clean Continuing Resolution—because they think they can win politically by letting things get worse.
And now, Fetterman is clearly furious that his party is treating real people as leverage in this shutdown, and has no qualms about calling them out. For over a month now, the Schumer Shutdown has left families scrambling and federal workers unpaid. As Democrats keep filibustering a clean continuing resolution, Republicans have voted repeatedly to reopen the government immediately. But Democrats stubbornly refuse unless the GOP agrees to tack on an extension of Obamacare
...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
subsidies.
Fetterman wasn't having it. ''It's just like, we have to be better than this and just open this up,'' he told Raju, practically begging his colleagues to act like adults.
He went further, offering an apology ''on behalf of my party'' for leaving Americans in limbo. Fetterman admitted the glaring truth: millions of Americans might soon lose access to food benefits, because Democrats would rather score points than solve problems.
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