THE ‘SCHUMER SHUTDOWN’ ENDS NOT WITH A BANG, BUT WITH A WHIMPER…

Ok, so it looks like ‘Schumer’s Shutdown’ may finally be coming to a very unceremonious end with seven Democrats and one Independent finally deciding to do the right thing. And it would seem that the attempt to use the shutdown to do damage to President Trump was all for naught. It would seem that the Democrats will never learn that that which they view as being most important, that being to stand up against President Trump, continues to be a loser tactic for them. And once again they seem to have learned nothing from this most recent exercise in futility. They do the same thing over and over again as if hoping for a different result.

And it was this past Monday that we heard from one of those on the left who chose to vote to end this shutdown. You see, it was then, during an appearance on MSDNC’s “Morning Schmo,” that Sen. Angus King, Independent from Maine, said the Democrats “standing up” to President Trump with a government shutdown “didn’t work.” Translation, our internal polls on this were terrible and getting worse. But look, as I said these people learned nothing from this this incident and thus, they will likely keep challenging President Trump because it’s all they know how to do. You would think that at some point they would simply work with him to try to make some points.

Host Joe Scarborough started things off by asking, “Why did you decide to vote with Republicans to open the government?” King said, “Well, Joe, you have to go back to what the strategy was at the beginning of the shutdown. There were two goals, both of which I support. One was standing up to Donald Trump. The other was getting some resolution on the ACA premium tax credit issue. The problem was, the shutdown wasn’t accomplishing either goal. And there was practically, well, it was zero likelihood that it was going to.” And he went on to add, “In terms of standing up to Donald Trump, the shutdown actually gave him more power."

He said, “Exhibit A being what he’s done with SNAP and SNAP benefits across the country. Oh, by the way, Joe, you’re gonna love this: Guess who’s getting paid during the shutdown? Not the park rangers or air traffic controllers. The ICE agents. Under special law, under that big awful bill that they passed last summer, the ICE agents are being paid. Nobody else is. So standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work. It actually gave him more power.” Scarborough said, “But even Donald Trump admitted that the government shutdown is what caused Democrats to win the election in historic fashion last week.” King answered, “At some point, there’s diminishing returns."

And he went on to say, “And as I say, the strategy was ‘let’s bring the Republicans to the table.’ It didn’t happen. It wasn’t going to happen. And in the meantime, if this was just a dispute between politicians in the Senate and whether we had to hang around for the weekend, that would be one thing. But Joe, there is tremendous collateral damage from this. Forty-two million Americans’ SNAP benefits are at risk and are being lost. People aren’t being paid for the work that they’re doing. I don’t want to land at an airport in the United States with a sleepy air traffic controller because they’re working double shifts."

King concluded saying, “If the strategy isn’t working, you change tactics. And particularly, you change tactics if your own troops are at risk, and that’s really what’s happening here. There was collateral damage to the American people at the same time the goal wasn’t being achieved.” That’s the problem with Democrats. They don’t think things through. If they had, they would’ve realized that this idea was a loser. In truth, Democrats were getting killed in spite of all help they were getting from their friends in the ‘fake news’ media that were telling anyone willing to listen that Democrats winning ‘deep blue’ areas was somehow a “rebuke of Trump."

Personally, I do not believe that my tax dollars should be going to Illegals who break the law to come here and get free housing, free phones, free Healthcare, free school lunches, free stuff that Americans don’t get. And propping up Obamacare is a losing proposition. From day one it was designed to fail. It was never designed to fix the flaws in the existing system. It was designed to wreck the existing system to such an extent that the institution of a UK-style National Health Service was seen as the only viable solution. Our ‘friends’ on the left want very desperately for the federal government to be the exclusive health care provider for the entire populace.

Apparently, Schumer’s plan was to demonstrate that he could stand up to President Trump. Obviously, it was the wrong tactic. Perhaps he should have chosen to stand up for Americans instead of for those in this country illegally. Let’s face it, “standing up to Donald Trump” with mindless gestures was doomed from the beginning. And while ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ (TDS) may have motivated the party faithful to win a few local races, it’s not going to be enough to win on a national basis especially when the progressive failures become more and more obvious. And if nothing else this shutdown brought to the forefront two of the left’s more glaring failures.

And the shutdown provided additional proof, as if any was actually needed, that all Democrats really care about is power. Standing up to President Trump was a bogus, childish reason that did nothing more than to harm Democrat constituents. Trying to change that which was already agreed to in regard to Obamacare, throwing away billions to big pharmaceutical companies and healthcare to illegals, which is a lawless action, there was no excuse for what Chuck Schumer was trying to accomplish. There’s a distinct difference between “standing up to Donald Trump” and choosing a hill to die on. Chuck was allowed to pick the hill on which to die…and they did.

Clearly Democrats should never again be allowed anywhere near the levers of power. Can you possibly imagine what Hell they will unleash if that was ever to happen. As I’ve mentioned before, the two most prominent destroyers of human life throughout history have been Islam and Communism. And it’s become quite clear that the Democrats, without question, now fully embrace both of these deadliest of ideologies. So what rationale is there for voting for such people? Obviously, those who vote for such people must also fully endorse these two deadly ideologies. Democrats have long been referred to as ‘the party of death,’ and with good reason.