I too, have been VERY disappointed and angry about the inability of most of our elected “representatives" to care for the people of this country, more than they appear to care for their own hides. Yet decisions are never as cut and dried as we always want them to be.
Maybe you were one of the folks who applauded Liz Cheney for taking a stand outside what her party thought was right.
Do you think she did it for money or fame?
Do you think she didn’t know what she was personally risking?
Or might she have done it because she felt it was for the greater good!
One thing seems sure: She wasn’t a coward.
Schumer isn’t either.
Before we lead more people into fighting amongst ourselves.
It seems very important to consider the horrible choices that were in front of these people before we raise a fury against Chuck Schumer and the others that voted for this funding bill.
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"A shutdown would shut down all government agencies, and it would solely be up to Trump and DOGE and Musk what to open again, because they could determine what was essential.”
“Their goal of decimating the whole federal government, of cutting agency after agency after agency, would occur under a shutdown. Two days from now in a shutdown, they could say, well, food stamps for kids is not essential. It’s gone. All veterans offices in rural areas are gone. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. They’re not essential. We’re cutting them back. So it’d be horrible. The damage they can do under a shutdown is much worse than any other damage that they could do.”
“It can last forever. There is no off ramp. One of the Republican senators told us: ‘We go to a shutdown, it’s going to be there for six months, nine months, a year.’ And by then, their goal of destroying,
the federal government would be gone.”
“...one final point here, and that is that right now under the C.R., you can go to court and contest an executive order to shut something down.”
“Under a shutdown, the executive branch has sole power. “
“So, I felt so strongly as a leader that I couldn’t let this happen because weeks and months from now, things would be far worse than they even are today, that I had to do what I had to do.”
“You see, we’ve had government shutdowns before, but never against such nihilists, such anti-government fanatics as Trump, DOGE, Musk. They’ve given us a playbook, by the way. [Russell] Vought has already has written what he wants to shut down if he got a shutdown. Trump wanted a shutdown. Musk wanted a shutdown.
Ask yourself why."
Whether you agree with these Senators or not.
Pause a moment.
PLEASE at the very least, listen deeper and encourage others to do the same. To be sure, there is so much to do to try and keep up.
But try not to take things at face value. It’s never as easy as we think.
