Democrats pointlessly kept the government shut down for 41 days (and still counting!), purely to satisfy their squalling left flank’s need to do something to “resist” President Donald Trump.
After they shut it down, they opted to claim the point was to force the GOP to extend expiring Covid-era Affordable Care Act subsidies — though the Dems themselves had set the expiration date back in 2021.
Yet the true reason was simply that Democratic grassroots activists and donors are furious that they can’t get their way in Washington, and insisted that their congresscritters express their rage.
It doesn’t matter that they’re near-powerless because they lost last year’s elections.
That is, “saving democracy” never had anything to do with respecting the wishes of the majority of voters; it always meant simply “Stop Orange Man!”
The shutdown’s uselessness is demonstrated by the fury of those who want it to keep it going (and indeed are still delaying the Senate’s final floor vote).
“People want us to hold the line,” thundered Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bx-Queens), furious that eight of her Senate colleagues crossed the aisle to get the government working again (at least until January).
Who to blame for the sanity caucus quashing the six-week tantrum? Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-Brooklyn) of course.
Sure he voted to keep the shutdown going, but he’s friends with the “traitors” and failed to make them obey the demands of the Trump-deranged.
“Sen. Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced,” postured Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)
Maybe Khanna, AOC and other Dem whiners are right, at least as far as what their most fervid voters want.
Poor people, hungry children, unpaid government workers and stranded travelers, apparently, are supposed to just accept their being drafted as props in this pointless “resistance.”
This story originally appeared on NYPost
