It has become evident why Democrats feel such an affinity for Ukraine’s Zelenskyy; both share a fondness for over-the-top rhetoric and underwhelming abilities to back up all the tough talk.
As President Trump so succinctly pointed out to Zelenskyy during the pipsqueak’s Oval Office tirade, you need to have cards to play poker and Zelenskyy had no cards. The reported apology from Zelenskyy, and the Ukraine presence in peace negotiations since then, prove Trump correct.
Fast-forward to the current budget battle and Crying Chuck Schumer is playing the role of Zelenskyy while representing his neutered political party.
If you have not been paying attention, our federal government is about to run out of money once again, forcing a shutdown. It happens all too often, with Democrats clutching their pearls and trying to scare people that their Social Security payments won’t be made (they always have been) and various other outright lies designed to panic the populace.
Democrats, with the help of their lapdogs in the LameStream media, in the past always have seemed able to blame shutdown on the Republicans. But not this time.
This time, House speaker Mike Johnson shepherded a Republican proposal though his half of Congress, despite possessing a thin majority and an abundance of RINOs trying to stand in the way just to get some time in the spotlight.
The proposal went to the Senate, where the arcane rules on such matters require 60 votes to close debate before voting on the proposal. Republicans would need some Democrat votes to close debate and minority leader Chuck Schumer, notable for being a loudmouth father of a fat movie actress, vowed the votes would not be there.
Schumer sounded tough, just like Zelenskyy before his European backers told him they couldn’t protect his tiny butt without the United States military onboard.
This meant Schumer offered no apology – even called Republicans “bastards” in one of those made for leftist cable news moments Democrats seem to prefer these days – then said he’d vote for the spending measure.
Reports of screaming matches heard through the walls at a closed-door Democrat Senate session were shared widely yesterday, in advance of Schumer’s “bastard” appearance.
Since that time, Democrats in the House have whined and accused with predictable fervor leavened with little common sense.
Schumer is, at heart, a politician, a demagogue. He knows this shutdown would be thrown squarely in the lap of his increasingly dysfunctional party. Not a good look for a leftist organization already rating low in most polling.
There is no guarantee that, even with Schumer’s snappy aboutface, enough Democrats will vote to pass this spending proposal. We expect to know later today.
Republicans should be hoping Democrats do not approve the measure. When “non-essential” government employees are laid off and all still functions, it would provide objective proof of the DOGE contention that the government is wildly overstaffed.
And, if someone felt inconvenienced because some facility was not open for business, Republicans could point the finger at the Democrats.
It is a win-win situation for Republicans, and yet further evidence that the Democrats have become a group of raging fools whose rhetoric is, to borrow from “Macbeth,” tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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