Posted on 10/02/2025 6:36:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Rahm Emanuel gave the world a simple truth about politics when he wrote, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
Obama the Goof was pretty good at it. In Trump’s second presidency, has mastered this. He used emergencies to shut down the border, lay heavy tariffs on trade cheats and to turn DC into a clean capital worthy of hosting world leaders at the White House.
Trump now is using the government shutdown to do what people thought he could never do—shut down the government. I know. It’s amazingly simple and yet Democrats couldn’t see it coming.
Charley the Clueless Schumer and his cardboard cutout of Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, were the perfect foils. Rather than risk the ire of AOC, brother lover Ilhan and Swivelhead Jasmine, Schumer let Trump shut the government down.
Oh yes, Chuck and Hakeem tried act big by demanding an audience with the president. Trump said fine. They went to the White House with a list of the demands and left empty handed without even the list.
As a bonus, Trump mocked their press conference and their sole issue: giving free health care to illegal aliens, three-quarters of whom are Hispanic.
The shutdown became reality on Wednesday and it finally dawned on the lefty press that Donald John Trump owned the Democrats. Republicans are going to the mats just as they did in Trump’s first presidency when there was a five-week shutdown.
The difference is this time they are going to the mats for their president, not against.
National Review reported, “Democrats have said they will support a continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21 only if Republicans include legislative language to permanently extend temporary Obamacare subsidies. Democrats drafted their own continuing resolution, which would repeal significant parts of President Trump’s signature domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
In other words, Democrats want Trump to surrender his entire agenda. Only Rand Paul waved the white flag as the rest of the party rallied behind the party’s leader.
NR said that the Congressional Budget Office estimated the first presidency cost the economy $3 billion in five weeks. That means a 50-week shutdown would cost $30 billion—chump change in a 30 trillion dollar economy. And that’s using the partisan CBO numbers.
As the shutdown turned into another nothingburger, it dawned on the press corps that Democrats blew it.
Politico reported:
Agencies central to Trump’s agenda are shielding certain programs by declaring the federal employees who work on them essential or sheltering them under already approved funding streams—designations that will allow them to keep running through the funding lapse.
That means offices tasked with immigration enforcement and tariff negotiations, two hallmarks of Trump’s presidency, will retain significantly more staff than they have in prior shutdowns, according to a Politico analysis of agency documents submitted to the White House in recent days and interviews with current and former administration officials. That’s even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are sent home, hampering a variety of government functions including some routine food safety inspections, Social Security benefit verifications and the publication of employment numbers by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I don’t see how the shutdown affects Social Security which is self-funded and sitting on a $2.7 trillion surplus. But how will we live without BLS’s made-up numbers?
That after sifting through agency documents and interviewing all these officials, past and present, that was the worst Politico could come up with—the loss of food inspections, benefits verifications and statistics.
That’s it.
The government spends $6 trillion and shutting it down to its bare essentials loses you three tiny things?
Newt Gingrich told Politico, “Rahm Emanuel should be proud of the Trump team because they’re prepared to say, ‘Every day this is shut, we will find ways to pay for everything we want. We’ll find ways to eliminate everything you want. And we’ll do it legally.’ ”
NASA will continue to prepare a moon launch. The Interior Department will continue to lease land to oil drillers. Thousands of government workers will be laid off permanently.
Politico also said:
“The last person that wants to shut down is us,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “Now, with that being said, we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible — that are bad for them and irreversible by them. Like cutting vast numbers of people out. Cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.”
While the party controlling Washington typically suffers politically during a shutdown, polling shows significant peril for Democrats: A new New York Times-Siena College poll found that 65% of respondents, including 43% of Democrats, think Democrats shouldn’t allow a government shutdown, even if their demands aren’t met.
As the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles like to say, Trump has reversed the polarity.
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached record highs. But the press had to do what it does best—spin to win for the Democrats.
No one in the Federal Blob has lost their job yet.
Chunky Shoomer swung and hit Mr. Potatohead, Skyhook Hakeem.
I thought 100,000 were go8n* to resign on 9/30. What happened? I want my money back.
The manufacturer I work for had a surprise inspection by a representative of OSHA two days ago. He’s coming back today for a meeting with bigwigs and safety people to discuss his findings.
We didn’t do badly in the inspection, but I think our safety director wishes this OSHA guy was on furlough.
LOL!
Usually, OSHA only responds to lost time occurances rates or direct complaints claiming unsafe practices. If you have OSHA in your facility you already reported the data which brought them to your doorstep. There should be no surprises unless your managers were playing dangerous games.
Rand Paul again? To think that he always votes out of principle is nothing but mental masturbation.
“The Interior Department will continue to lease land to oil drillers”. This is a vast money generator for the Government due to bonuses and royalties.
The Dems really stepped in it this time.
Trying the Schumer Shuffle again, but it won’t work anymore.
WTF! Explain this one to me those that love Rand. I thought he was all about small limited gov't.
I see the sniveling scumbag at MSDNC (Twink Hayes) has his panties in a tightwad.
The gnashing of teeth, the angst, the stress and high blood pressure from all those communist pukes is glorious to behold. Schadenfreude! Suffer you rat cretins! More, more, more.
Chuck Schumer has become the Wile E. Coyote of American politics.
Only thing the democrats are any good for are stooge movies.
Chunky! Serving up those Government Shut Down Chunky Cheeseburgers to his fans.
Ka ching
The way I read that was in reference to the “Big Beautiful Bill”. Rand voted against that earlier this year.
This part of the article was poorly written if I read it correctly.
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