IS FETTERMAN CAUSING SCHUMER TO BLOW A FUSE???

Let’s start by stating the obvious. Anyone who chooses to speak honestly about the situation knows who it is that’s responsible for the fact that our government continues to remain shut down. And that would, of course, be the Democrats. And any Democrat who dares to say anything different likely risks his membership to the party and being chastised by those in the ‘fake news’ media. But oddly enough there is at least one who’s willing to be the exception to the continuing insanity and risk just such a scenario. And it should strike everyone as being odder still is that the aforementioned exception is none other than John Fetterman. I know, is that weird or what?

On Sunday, during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. John Fetterman said that Democrats “own the shutdown,” which he described as a “fail.” Host Jake Tapper said, “So, as you know, 42 million Americans, including 2 million Pennsylvanians, will not receive food stamp or SNAP benefits this month because funding officially lapsed yesterday. The White House says this is the fault of Democrats for shutting down the government. Democrats note that the Trump administration is not dipping into the contingency funds for SNAP, and they think that Trump is doing that to to pressure Democrats. How do you see it? Who do you blame for this?"

Fetterman said, “Well I mean, for me, fundamentally, I’m deeply, deeply distressing to know that 42 million Americans are going to lose their SNAP benefits. And now that’s one of the big reasons why I refuse to shutting our government down. And again, I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown. I mean, we’re shutting it down. I know why they claim, because they want to address the tax credits, and I fully support that. I voted for all of their CRs, our CRs, every single time. And I refuse to put 42 million Americans in the kinds of food insecurity. Now, this is all all solved by just reopen our government and the people are now paid."

He added, “This is an absolute fail. It is actually embarrassing honesty if we can’t even keep the lights on.” As they say even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then, so regardless of his most recent comments, it’s important to remember that he voted votes 98 percent of the time with his fellow Democrats on what have been some pretty terrible policies. Now while he can do nothing about his voting record, I will support his belief on this one issue. And also, after his recent comments, it would seem obvious to those on the outside looking in that there now might be a very strong likelihood that will be primaried when running for re-election.

But just because he speaks sanity on this issue, and his support of Israel, he should most certainly not be seen as being any sort of ally to those desperate to save this country and in preventing it from sliding even further to the left. Fetterman tends to talk sense but then usually votes with the rest of the Democrats. I don’t understand what point he is trying to make with that. I certainly don’t trust him to do the right thing any more than I trust any other Democrat. One wonders if Fetterman keeps destroying his party’s narrative, at regarding the ongoing shutdown, how long might it be before those in the ‘fake news’ media stop inviting him on their shows.

Even with all that said, Fetterman really isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know. The Democrats own the shutdown and could care less. To them, it’s all about providing healthcare for illegals. While there are a few Democrats who are starting to come to their senses regarding the issue of the shutdown, the rest seem to incurably suffer from chronic ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ (TDS) and should be expected to continue to make all the wrong decisions or choices going forward. Democrats own the shutdown by being stubborn and refusing to pass a bill that would open the government unless they are able to get exactly what THEY want.

No matter what you might think about Fetterman he seems to be the only one in his party taking a non-partisan common sense and ethical approach to the overall situation. He essentially is saying open the government and those responsible for it should get back to work and in so doing then hash out their differences that caused the shutdown in the first place. And in the meantime, the nation cannot afford another entitlement program. We cannot afford Obamacare subsidies. The Democrats made them temporary knowing that once they were in place it would be nearly impossible to not make them permanent but that’s exactly what we need to do!

It is deeply distressing that 41 Million Americans are on SNAP, forget that they lost the benefits for a month. That is over 10 percent of the U.S. population. I can’t help but wonder how it is that a person ‘qualifies’ for such assistance? We need to get able bodied people out of those programs. There was a time when any American would have taken it as a personal insult if you were to suggest that he, or she, go on public assistance. How things seem to have changed. The Democrats have long been interested in getting more people addicted to government ‘assistance.’ They see that as a secure pool of voters since few will vote for ending that ‘assistance.'

Democrats clearly are far more interested in getting illegals into the country to stay than they are in the welfare of their own voters. This is an indisputable fact. They have to. Their survival depends upon it. Since 1973 they have killed off over 70 million souls through abortion. Blue states have shed population by people fleeing high taxed and corrupt blue states into red states. They see a black community starting to figure out that they have been exploited for 60 years. They must replace their voter bloc in order to survive as a political party. They know just what will happen if we do another census to where only American citizens are counted.

Democrats are looking at losing dozens of seats in the House. They’re not going to depend upon the black vote moving forward. They have backed themselves into a political corner that they cannot escape from. Desperation makes them dangerous going forward. The primary concern of those in the Democrat Party has long been the gaining, maintaining and the increasing of their political power. There is nothing they will say or do in accomplishing just that. And it’s on the issue of the shutdown that Fetterman seems to be the fly in their ointment. We’ll see if that makes much of difference as he seems to be a loyal Democrat in most every other regard.