As the government shutdown enters its fifth week, we wonder when Democrats in Congress will regain touch with reality, or if that’s even a thing for most of them anymore.
LAX shut down for hours last weekend thanks to an air-traffic-controller shortage; flight delays and cancellations will only get worse nationwide the longer this goes on.
And the pain is starting to hit what used to be core Democratic values: Food stamps (SNAP) won’t be funded after this week, nor Head Start.
Plus: Everett Kelley, the head of the American Federation of Government Employees (the main federal union) on Monday demanded Dems “pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today.”
A “clean CR” is what Republicans have offered from the start — a straightforward bill to keep Uncle Sam going for another couple of months.
If this keeps up, northern Virginia’s vast ranks of furloughed government workers (or ones working without pay) may take out their ire on Abigail Spanberger, the Dems’ candidate for governor; it’d serve her right.
For all their claims to be fighting for more health-care spending (which alternate with BS about how it’s the Republicans who shut down most federal operations), everyone knows why Democrats really shut down the government: Because their base, and most of their big donors, are furious that Republicans are in charge.
Never mind that the GOP’s calling the shots because it won the last election, including House and Senate majorities: The party that’s spent the last decade claiming to defend “democracy” apparently thinks that word actually means “we get our way.”
Worse, the folks calling the shots plainly don’t much care about the real-world costs to non-elite Democrats: The party’s more humble voters apparently must suffer in the name of Fighting Trump.
Mind you, Democrats lost that last election because most voters saw them as captive to the party’s increasingly weird elites — yet now they’re doubling down on the same behavior.
Do they want to keep losing?