Posted on 10/17/2025 2:18:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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-NY) 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.
As Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), one of three Senate Democrats who joined Republicans on Thursday in support of the defense appropriations bill, put it earlier this week: "You know, if you're thinking about winning the election, now, that's all going to come down to seven or eight states. ... And a lot of the things, the extremism that people turned their back in '24, and that's how we kind of came up short."
It's wise advice. But Fetterman is likely to pay for being such a rare voice of (relative) reason within the party with an impending bruising Senate primary contest.
Why exactly are Democrats, who control neither chamber of Congress nor the presidency, continuing to insist on a protracted shutdown battle? It's a more complex question than it ought to be. But the basic disagreement amounts to one over expiring Obamacare subsidies and the scope of Medicaid coverage -- pertaining, to no small extent, to illegal aliens.
In short, then, air traffic control operations are suffering from a potentially dangerous shortage, America's beautiful national...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
10/17, 11th vote.
The ‘Rat jack-wagons are still braying.
Yep!
They can get away with anything, no matter how outrageous...
Republicans need only change the rules and say that a simply majority only is needed to pass a funding bill to keep government open, and no filibusters are allowed.
Actually, it’s a bit of a trick question. Democrats tend to be young and ignorant, and they often leave the party - or at least its left wing, as they age and mature.
So yes, SOME democrats have learned something. Bill Maher comes to mind. And many others simply have a vested interest in sticking with the insanity at all costs. Still others simply never learn. I suppose that would be the nutcases like Robert DE Nero.
Looks like commie bitch mugshots.
It’s not the job of the unelected minority to undermine and combat the elected majority. It’s the hob of the party that lost to make their case for the next elections. Grow up. Get over it. There is a process. Follow it.
2+2 =/= 5
But, why is 2/0 = null? Shouldn’t it equal 2? If you have 2 and don’t divide it, you have 2. Makes no sense. Someone screwed up somewhere. We have to start all over.
In a sane world you fund through appropriations bills not CRs.
Yes, that no one listens to them unless they scream and shout their message.
You have to ask?
Worth noting that if the situation were reversed, the media would be lauding Republican defectors and predicting which ones would break next.
So far, 3 Democrats have defected and no speculation as to which other Democrats are on the edge.
Wonder what the people that elected them look like chimps?.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.