Fetterman: Yeah, I’m Votin’ for It

I have really come to like this SlingBlade guy.

Ever since his stroke, he has come back more and more like an actual human being and, compared to where he was before it, can string some sentences together that are rational, pragmatic, and sometimes poetry.

And don’t @ me about his support for trans this or abortion that – this girl was never part of the ‘Fetterman is a closet RINO in disguise’ club. He’s a hardcore progressive, but that doesn’t mean he can’t act like a decent human being – which he most certainly does – and has steadfastly done the right thing many times these past months.

I challenge you to say the same about any squad member or purple-haired octogenarian. Shoot – you’d be hard-pressed to say ‘decent guy’ about Chuck Schumer.

No, I don’t know that there’s another Democratic senator in that minority right now whose words have as much impact as the purposeful slob from Pennsylvania. They all posture, gesture – even sing badly – laying the foaming-at-the-mouth argle-bargle on thick for the cameras.

And then Fetterman wipes the legs out from under them in one sweatshirted “Well, I dunno…’ as he leans against a basement wall.

It’s fantastic theater in its own right, notwithstanding the man’s story.

Like Kirsten Sinema before him, Fetterman rode a wave of progressive high hopes and has, instead, turned into a ‘senator’ – a disruptor of the Democratic block mentality by virtue of working across the aisle, adhering to principles before party edicts, and a sense of duty to what’s best for the people of their state.

He is unafraid to tell the children to grow-up when appropriate.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., called out his own party the day after President Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress, warning that the Democrats are becoming like a blaring car alarm that people ignore.

“A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance. It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained. We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to—and it may not be the winning message,” the senator said in a post on X.

And now, the hate and discontent he’s causing over the Continuing Resolution passed by the Republican House is epic.

The same Chuck Schumer, who only a few short months ago said this about government shutdowns, was busy bloviating with Senate Dems about how they intended to do that very thing.

Chuck Schumer with a Democrat in the White House: “A government shutdown will have a very real economic impact on real people, right away.”

Chuck Schumer with Trump in the White House: “SHUT IT DOWN!” pic.twitter.com/WrbKb4UpzQ

— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) March 13, 2025

That was before it became blazingly obvious to the clueless bunch that schmaybe, just schmaybe, this was going to be a really stupid move on their part. A massive self-own for the ages.

Especially when Republicans across the country all had the same reaction to the threat.

DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA OWN IT

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent SLAMMED the Democrats over their plan to shut down the government:

“What’s not good for this economy is this government shutdown. I don’t know what Democrats are thinking here because they’re going to own it.”

“The Democrats are in disarray;… pic.twitter.com/EZN42PuKKG

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 13, 2025

Then it was a scramble to scuttle backward as Democrats come up with one hare-brained, desperate attempt after another to save face as they are forced to cave on the CR. The latest scheme is a dead-on-arrival Dem 30-day CR that gets voted immediately down and then allows Dems to sigh and say, 

‘Well, we tried. I had to vote for the House CR in order NOT TO SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN.‘

They’re not kidding anybody, the craven cowards.

As Ed just posted, Schumer gave up and threw in the Resistance Towel.

Schumer: “I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down”

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 13, 2025

The only one who never went along with the Kabuki Theater from the very beginning was Fetterman.

I’M VOTING FOR IT

…And front and center is Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.), who has vowed to support the bill to avoid a shutdown, in a moment reflective of the larger question confronting the Democratic Party: When to fight and when to fall in line?

…Fetterman, the only Democrat in the chamber to unequivocally pledge to back the spending bill, has urged members of his party to do the same. Last week, he joined some fellow Democrats in criticizing displays of displeasure with President Donald Trump during his joint address to Congress.

“The weeks of performative ‘resistance’ from those in my party were limited to undignified antics,” he posted on his social media accounts, including Trump’s platform, Truth Social. “Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession. I disagree with many points in the [continuing resolution], but I will never vote to shut our government down.”

For Fetterman, the move is in line with how he has reacted to Republican control of the White House and Congress over the last few months, urging his party to have a more measured approach to a deluge of policy changes, picking rare moments to speak out against the Trump administration while finding opportunities to support Trump’s agenda.

 And he was a blunt as usual.

FETTERMAN, who will vote for the House CR, weighed in just now on situation Dems find themselves in:

“The only time we had any leverage … [was if] the Republican needed our votes in the House. The GOP delivered and that effectively iced us out and that forces us to say, are…

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 13, 2025

…The GOP delivered and that effectively iced us out  and that forces us to say, are you gonna shut the government down? or are you are gonna vote for a flawed CR? And now for me, I refuse to shut the government down.”

Man, are they losing their cookies.

“He’s going to find himself on a political island, and his actions are recruiting a primary opponent,” Mikus said. “He will not be our senator in 2029, I guarantee it.” https://t.co/E1NchFvi92

— Nick Field (@nick_field90) March 12, 2025

‘Guarantee’ it, huh? 

Guy’s ‘gotta go.’

Practically the only decent human being Democrat in the Senate, and of course, you’d say that.

Y’all gonna be in the wilderness fo-EH-vah https://t.co/upQAJ2gzVT pic.twitter.com/bB8D6zvfzK

— tree hugging s*ster (@WelbornBeege) March 13, 2025

Yeah.

THE WILDERNESS

People keep trying and trying to tell them. 

…“Democrats are kind of in the wilderness right now,” said Chris Borick, a pollster at Muhlenberg College. “I think they’re desperately looking for a place where they have some leverage, and on the surface it may seem this is a situation that provides that, but I don’t think it’s the battle that they are best suited to engage in.”

When the guy who had a stroke is the only elected member of your party making any sense at all?

Fetterman: I don’t support Jew-killers and I oppose shutting down the government

Democratic activists: This guy has to go

— Sunny (@sunnyright) March 13, 2025

I hope they brought fire starters, clean underwear, and MREs with them

Democrats are going to be out there a long, long time.