Posted on 10/17/2025 10:29:27 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
On Thursday, Senate Democrats voted for the 10th time to prolong the federal government shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) defended his caucus’s latest vote, opining, “It’s always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety.” But to most Americans, such tendentious bloviating falls on deaf ears. Most commonsense Americans understand that there is no reason paying America’s warriors should be held hostage to arcane debates over housing policy.....
In short, then, air traffic control operations are suffering from a potentially dangerous shortage, America’s beautiful national parks are understaffed, and service members could go without pay—all, seemingly, because Democrats think more taxpayer dollars should go toward subsidizing the health care of illegal aliens.
This is an astonishingly weak negotiating position. Minority parties completely out of power typically do not get what they want during high-profile Beltway budgetary standoffs or shutdown fights, and there is very little reason to expect Republicans to cave. As the shutdown goes on, moreover, the polling on which side is more to blame seems to be gradually shifting toward Democrats as the more blameworthy side.
It is far from obvious what exactly Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) expect to accomplish as the shutdown barrels ahead toward its third week. They are not going to prevail—and the longer it goes on, the worse political shape they will find themselves in.
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I would like to see Trump start paying TSA, air traffic, and park rangers and dare the rats to sue him to stop paying fed employees.
There really is nowhere for them to turn, no other path or direction once they are given over to full spiritual evil. Which is ultimately what empowers them.
That evil spirit housed within so many and having their multitude of mouthpieces in the MSM, they cannot reverse that core hatred of humanity because of the witness of how God has provided a way back to himself for us by his Son Jesus.
Satan and all those given to him have no way back. All they have is to seek more time and to attack.
More time will not be given, and so they will desperately increase their attacks.
Neither party has not learned anything.
Actually, there was very good reason to expect Republicans to cave: they always have.
Trump changed everything. They tried to jail him, and they tried to kill him; there is nothing left to make him want to stop now.
Well, apparently the Dems decided they really don’t like Burger King restaurants
“...they really don’t like Burger King restaurants”
Or Los Angeles hockey teams.
“Democrats Still Haven’t Learned Any Lessons”
Not since 1828.
It is increasingly intensely exasperating to even try.
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