Posted on 10/23/2025 7:17:57 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Then Clark said the quiet part out loud.
“Shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer,” she said.
“We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage items we have. It is an inflection point in this budget process where we have tried to get the Republicans to meet with us and prioritize the American people,” Clark said.
In a shocking admission earlier this month, Democrats said they won’t end the Schumer Shutdown until planes are falling out of the sky.
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Suffer, Citizens...SUFFER!!!
The DIMocRAT “battle cry”.
LOL!
How pathetic of these congress criminals.
They voted against the troops getting paid, too.
Commie DemonRATS don’t mind making Americans suffer as long as it benefits their illegal alien voting invaders. As Hakeem and the Raw Cheeseburger Chef would say, “SUCK IT UP YOU CRYBABY AMERICANS. The foreign freeloaders want “a better life” and were going to give it to them.”
Are the Socio-Marxists Formerly Known As Democrats still insisting on free healthcare for illegals?
I know it’s muddled in with the ACA stipends, but I have lost the thread of it at this point.
If Sen Fetterman has become my go-to for updates we must be living in the Twilight Zone.
But really, before I go waving this under noses, it is still a stand-off over payments for illegals, and what else?
Memo inbound —> “We don’t say those things out loud - do it again and lose your ‘D’ status.”
“Are the Socio-Marxists Formerly Known As Democrats still insisting on free healthcare for illegals?”
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As I understand it that is exactly why they are keeping the government shut down.
Dems think they can force the R’s either to cave or blow up the filibuster.
So, as usual, the Dims practice their hypocrisy, admitting that, for them, holding government workers and everyone else hostage (leverage) to get legislative change they do not otherwise have the votes for, is suddenly O.K., when doing such a thing was always what they charged the GOP with - holding everyone hostage to get a change they don’t otherwise have the votes for, when the GOP was responsible for a shut down.
Democrats thy true name is Hypocrites.
The democrats only care about themselves and the amount of money they can take from Families
They think they have leverage…. Adorable.
This is what they do.
We all remember how, during the Obama Shutdown, they wanted to make the shutdown as unpleasant and painful as possible on the American people, all to further their own political goals.
The best example was their blocking access to the WWII memorial in Washington, DC.
There was no valid reason at all to do that, they only did it to increase the pain, and hopefully (for them) to increase the pressure and create momentum for the Left to get its way.
Much like it is right now.
On a good note, we recall the actions of elderly WWII veterans who had traveled to Washington D.C. to see this memorial to them and their actions, and when they saw it was blocked off, called on their Greatest Generation tactics that won WWII and simply took down the barricades and signs and walked or wheeled their chairs into the memorial area.
Just wow. A salute, again, to those men.
Those who dismiss the suffering of others as “necessary” to fulfill their ambitions are calling down upon themselves a full measure of personal suffering.
May those so calloused suffer tenfold for such sin.
Tell me again why we allow this to continue. We should do unto them as they would do unto us.
Well said....if these swamp creatures would have had their pay affected this would have been solved in 48 hours.
The Party of the People. lol
Put this in a commercial, along with the Illegal driving accident in Florida and that poor girl killed on the train by a criminal let out and the Republicans would smoke the Dems in almost every election.
But nope, they won’t do that, they will stick to the boring & annoying political ads that nobody pays attention to and lose.
This is how the debt has gone through the roof since 2008. Every continuing resolution is a crisis Democrats don’t let go to waste.
I’m disappointed in Trump in this regard. He should have made it a high priority to return to the constitutionally-required budgeting process. No more continuing resolutions. Yes, this political theatre is hurting the Democrats... but it’s hurting our country as well. Debt has risen by $2 trillion in a matter of months.
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