Posted on 09/30/2025 11:30:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats have once again decided it’s a good time to pick a losing fight because the party’s ridiculous, anti-American base can’t see anything through to its logical end. In this case it’s pushing for a federal government shutdown, a scenario in which Democrats have no good options, but they’re ready to pick the worst one if it means “fighting” for the sake of it.
Just as Democrats have done on virtually every other major issue — crime, immigration, bureaucratic waste — they’re positioning themselves to do the most counterproductive thing possible. Rather than vote with Republicans to keep government funding at current levels, they’re angling to shut it down, unless Republicans agree to passing more “health care” subsidies (i.e., welfare). The problem for them, though, is Republicans have no major incentive to support the additional welfare, given that they ran on and were elected opposing it, and in any event, a shutdown gives the White House immense discretion in choosing which federal agencies to keep open.
In other words, Republicans benefit either way. If the government stays open, President Trump’s agenda continues, at least until the midterms, more than a year away. If it closes, Democrats just handed the keys to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, who will gleefully set about cutting hundreds more bureaucrats (Democrat voters). Democrats in Washington are well aware of the dilemma, but their base is demoralized and a lot of the party’s leaders, especially the ones who want to run for president, think it’s better to indulge it with a shutdown now, at least for a while.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, renowned for her political prowess as a master legislator, is one of those leaders...
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“... set about cutting hundreds more bureaucrats”
Was hoping for significant thousands, not hundreds.
I kind of see a shutdown as an opportunity to bring Musk back for some supplementary DOGE. It’s time for Big Balls to be avenged.
I kind of see a shutdown as an opportunity to bring Musk back for some supplementary DOGE. It’s time for Big Balls to be avenged.
FTA: “Democrats can “fight” with a shutdown if they want to. And then they can explain to their voters what that was all about when it makes no difference and they ultimately vote to reopen the government.”
But they won’t explain, It’ll just be ‘on to the next thing’. And their ignorant lemmings will keep on with ‘Orange Mad Bad!’. The lemmings won’t even examine what happened.
Let Schumer have his day, and then the next day, cut out thousands of wasteful Federal employees who don’t know what an honest day of work is if it hit them in their faces.
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