Nothing like having someone with the emotional maturity of a 10-year-old running the country. It’s a guarantee of the country running aground and in this present moment, the United States government is out of money and is officially shut down. This is the first time this has happened since 2019, when the government was shut down for 35 days until Donald Trump abandoned his Build The Wall obsession. This time the main argument is not over some fictional wall to contain an imaginary enemy but over very real health care premiums. The truth of the matter is that unless the Republicans cave, health insurance premiums could skyrocket by hundreds of dollars per month. But top GOP leadership believes if they just frame the issue as being about insuring illegal aliens, that the American people will buy it. Adding insult to injury are Trump’s threats.
The president said he would move during a shutdown to enact measures that are “bad” for Democrats “and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.” Later in the Oval Office, he said that “a lot of good can come down from shutdowns,” including laying off federal workers who are Democrats and undermining initiatives they support.
In a shutdown, Mr. Trump said, “we can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, and they’d be Democrat things.”
Democrats appeared unbowed by the threats. In March, a clutch of Senate Democrats led by Mr. Schumer allowed a stopgap spending bill to advance, prompting an outpouring of ire from liberal voters and activists who had urged their leaders to deny their votes in protest of Mr. Trump’s administration.
This time, Democrats have picked a fight with Mr. Trump on money for health care — an issue on which polls show Democrats have the upper hand — and dared the president and Republicans to say no.
“The strategy is — the American people are demanding it,” Mr. Schumer said.
Still, a few members of the Democratic caucus broke from the party on Tuesday evening in the hours before the spending deadline and voted for Republicans’ spending plan. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Angus King, independent of Maine, all supported the measure.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was the sole Republican to vote against his own party’s funding bill.
Once again, we have reached a place where Rand Paul is the voice of reason. if that was the only fact that you had to work with, you would know from it alone that we are up the proverbial creek without the paddle. So now the issue is, as it was in 2019, how long will it last? And bear in mind, Trump was saner then than he is now. He’s older, more deranged, and since he’s in his second term he can be as reckless as he wants. That, plus the fact that he doesn’t care about either the presidency nor the GOP as institutions, make him the danger that he is.
Hang on tight, it’s going to be a bumpy ride until somebody lands this plane.
Getting rid of ‘Democrat things’ like The Constitution, justice, fairness, truth, honesty, or keeping your word ?
In favor of republican things like un-constitutionality, injustice, unfairness, lies, dis-honesty, or breaking your word like Dementia Donny did with Canada, Mexico and other allies?
That’s the obvious conclusion.
Another day of winning in paradise. (sigh)