SCHUMER BLINKS: For All His Fiery Bluster, He Folds Like A Lawn Chair When The Shutdown Vote
This is what happens when you lose control of the media narrative
Not so long ago, Dems knew they could force an issue, blame it on Republican intransigence, and have the media spin public opinion into blind obedience. This is proof that those days are over.
When the GOP took over the House a couple of years ago, responsiblity for drafting the budget fell on their shoulders. The first year, some Senate Republicans signed a Continuing Resolution deal with the Dems that negated any budgetary control the GOP could have in the first year.
Games were played, a leadership change came into place at the most inopportune time, and there was another deal with the devil made that kicked the can down the road. Budgets were being drafted, some even passed by the house… but Schumer refused to even take them up… because the guy who force-fed obnoxiously partisan (and patently deceptive) policy down everyone’s throats at every turn suddenly cared about bills being ‘bipartisan’. More likely, he was just holding out to get another CR stuffed with pork to fund all of the pet projects which just happen to serve as the financial equivalent of a Human Centipede (do NOT look that phrase up) recycling tax dollars into Democrat issues and back into Democrat pockets and/or campaigns.
Trump’s big win spoiled their party. And DOGE shone a light on all the dark places the rest of us were never supposed to see.
With the latests Government shutdown upon us unless federal funding is extended, the GOP took a gamble, passed a CR that fully funded the border wall and deportations (exactly the issue Schumer shut the government down over when Ryan’s budget was ready to pass).
It’s the Biden budget, with a few tweaks, but a LOT of changes are going to happen between now and when the new budget is revealed. We’ll see how the new-look leaner and more efficient Trump administration plays out, how much can be saved, and how big a difference those tariffs and tax cuts make in the economy.
Despite the fact that this CR would be (definitionally!) the same CR budget they passed just a few months ago when BIDEN’s name was on it, they were suddenly deeply opposed to everything in it, openly saying they would gladly shut down the government to oppose it.
Nobody said exactly what was different, there was just a lot of hand-waving and apocalyptic language. One after another they declared their vehement opposition to the Continuing Resolution that would keep the government funded.
Then Social Media — X, Rumble, and Truth Social — did their thing… digging up old clips of these very same Democrats denouncing government shutdowns as cruel, heartless, and unjust… making them own this shutdown and the moral bankruptcy they had already invested such shutdowns with.
They found themselves boxed in by their own words, and it really didn’t matter how cynical and insincere those words might have been when they were uttered, the other guys voted to keep Government open, and the party that was marching — by the dozens(!) — just days ago to protest federal firings at places like USAID is suddenly agreeing to send ALL but the most essential government workers home again.
And since Dems don’t have any levers of power here, they can’t sneak in any poison pills that would make a win or a loss equally useful to the Democrat narrative. Here he is trying to save face for capitulating only one day after taking his bold stand:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., indicated Thursday he would vote to advance Republicans’ six-month funding bill that passed the House to avert a government shutdown Friday night.
The move is a major concession from Schumer, yielding to the GOP measure just one day after he vowed that Democrats wouldn’t allow it to pass. It means the bill is likely to find enough votes to clear the 60-vote threshold and eventually pass with a simple majority, even as a growing number of Senate Democrats came out in opposition to it Thursday.
“There are no winners in a government shutdown,” Schumer said in a floor speech. “It’s not really a decision; it’s a Hobson’s choice: Either proceed with the bill before us or risk Donald Trump throwing America into the chaos of a shutdown. — NBCNews
🚨A HUMILIATED Chuck Schumer BACKS DOWN After Watching Clips of Himself Flip-Flopping on Government Shutdowns for 24 Hours Straight.
— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) March 13, 2025
The funniest part about it is Democrats raging against him for NOT shutting down the government.