The Morning Briefing: Schumer Shutdown, Schumer Tantrum

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All too often, Congress is like an overpriced daycare that charges the U.S. taxpayers a small fortune to provide a space for adults to act out. It is most wearisome, which is a word that pops into my head a lot when reading about the antics of our alleged representatives in this representative republic.

To the surprise of even those of us who've voted Republican our whole lives, the GOP members of Congress have had quite a few grown-up moments this year. The Democrats, however, descend further into toddler rage madness every day. The latest tantrum is now officially underway. This is from Matt:

Senate Democrats have blocked a Republican bill that would have extended federal funding for seven weeks, with the final tally coming in at 55-45, short of the 60 votes needed to break the filibuster. This puts the government on a fast track toward its first shutdown in nearly seven years, all because Democrats decided now was the time to dig in their heels.
The Republican bill was straightforward, a clean funding extension that should have sailed through without drama. But Democrats refused to play ball unless Republicans agreed to negotiate on extending Obamacare subsidies and other Democratic priorities. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Republicans of trying to bully his party by refusing to haggle over an extension of health care benefits.

Yeah, all these years later, we're still fighting over Obamacare. It's the STD of American political issues.

That Charles Schumer is a weak and ineffectual leader is a well-established given. How he remains in power can only be attributed to the fact that Democrats have a long history of failing upward. Nancy Pelosi appears to have used up all of the Democratic Congressional competence for a while.

We've been discussing the Democrats' complete lack of something positive to offer the American people after their spectacular defeat last November. All they've had is rage, f-bombs, and RESIST. This shutdown is more of the same. Matt goes on to quote the Associated Press as saying that "…party activists and lawmakers have argued that Democrats need to do something to stand up to Trump."

Stand up and do what, exactly? All that Schumer and the Democrats are trying to do right now is jockey for some favorable PR. In their minds, I guess they think that THIS will finally be the thing that appeals to the voters they lost last year, even though it's nothing different than anything else they've been doing.

The Dems can get all the back slaps they want from their propagandists in the mainstream media, but that model doesn't have the sway with the electorate that it used to. They have yet to wrap their heads around that truth. Trump and the Republicans keep winning these battles, no matter how many names they call him.

In a recent interview, chairman of the Democratic National Committee Ken Martin said that we could expect more of this "fight" nonsense, which my RedState colleague Becky Noble wrote about yesterday.

Schumer and the Democrats went through with this shutdown largely because they're still all-in on prioritizing illegal aliens over the American citizens they're tasked with representing. That's been working out super well for them so far this year. If they want to keep digging this political grave deeper and deeper, I'm willing to host a series of fundraisers to get more money to buy them shovels.

That's reaching across the aisle, right?

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