Senate Democrats Step On Rakes Running Away From The CR Fight

Whenever Democrats get into a pattern of melting down, it’s usually just for one event. Maybe a couple, certainly not longer than a week or so. Conservatives must seize and pounce on the opportunity when it presents itself, because it unfortunately doesn’t happen nearly enough. 

But this is not your father’s Democratic Party with which we’re dealing of late. As Ed wrote last week, The Democrats have not had themselves a good week, fortnight, month, or even decade. There is an old political axiom that says if your political opponents are in a freefall, hand them an anvil. Even after the debacle over the CR, which opened up a fissure between the fever swamp on the left and Senate Democratic leadership, some members of the Democratic conference continued to spiral through the weekend. 

Chris Murphy, Senator of Connecticut, is rapidly emerging as the most radical lefty in the upper chamber. He’s certainly got competition in Patty Murray, Raphael Warnock, and Adam Schiff, and there are indeed lots of Democrats that have lost their minds since Trump came back into office. Bernie Sanders allowing a transgendered singer to perform a song criticizing God’s genitalia at his Wisconsin rally was a fine choice to deploy in the heartland of America. But Murphy has been singular in both his criticisms and increasing his media exposure in order to become the leader of the Trump opposition. 

After the CR passed late Friday night, which every sentient follower of politics knew was going to happen because of the box canyon in which Chuck Schumer found himself, Murphy finally returned to his home and tweeted this out. 

Hey I just got home. Tough fucking day.

I am going to go live on @instagram at @chrismurphyct in about 10 minutes to talk about why I voted NO today on the government funding bill, and to give you some early, candid thoughts about where our movement needs to go from here.

Join…

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 15, 2025

Sure glad Murphy had Cathy, his wife of 17 years, to go home to in order to console him after his tough day at the office. Oh, wait. It appears that the two have separated, making the announcement, curiously, one week after his reelection to the Senate in November. In the meantime, Murphy is already dating Tara McGowan, an extreme left-wing media publisher who has been on the take from a variety of George Soros front groups for years, bringing in over $10 million dollars of dark money used to launch her various political enterprises. 

What’s Murphy going to do now that he’s fornicating his way into a boatload more money? Well, it looks like he’s running for Democratic leader of the Senate on the platform of throwing all norms out the window and use any available unconventional tactic in order to stop Trump and save muh democracy.

Chris Murphy tells Meet The Press: “If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don’t think we have a year to save American democracy.”pic.twitter.com/IsCoeic0mu

— Lebang Moloi (@lebang_moloi) March 16, 2025

Notice that the question by Kristen Welker was should he replace Chuck Schumer as leader. His response was, “I don’t think anyone’s having that conversation right now.” That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of Schumer, is it? It’s also not a Shermanesque denial. 

And again, Murphy’s democracy doomsday calendar has a year left on it. No time for messing around with norms – you know, rule of law, Senate rules, things like that. Anything is on the table to stop Trump. Keep in mind, millions more Americans voted for Donald Trump than voted for Kamala Harris. 

After a few days of resistance media floating this narrative that the President was blowing through his political capital from November, another poll came out showing Trump up ten in job approval.

📊 President Trump Job Approval

🟢 Approve: 54% (+10)
🔴 Disapprove: 44%

Was net: +4 (51-47) last week
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• @NapolitanNews | RMG Research
• Rating: B | 3,000 RV | 3/6-13 | ±1.8 pic.twitter.com/LIMeKK8cSz

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) March 16, 2025

Murphy isn’t representing the majority of the country. He’s representing the new insurrectionists. Except this time, the insurrectionists are on the Democratic side, so they are welcomed and necessary again. And as for Murphy’s love affair with F-bombs, between John Fetterman’s hoodies and cargo shorts and Chris Murphy’s street talk rhetoric, I’m sure the surge in youth vote is right around the corner for the liberals.

But the laugh out loud moment from the last few days comes from Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. You see, he’s not only an astronaut, he’s the twin brother of Scott Kelly, who also was an astronaut, spending a year on the Space Station. Mark and Scott both were studied to see what the effects of zero gravity over time did to the human body with maternal twins being used as the case studies – one in space for a year, one here on Earth. That was back when NASA actually could run missions without outside help.

Mark ended up running successfully for Senate in the Grand Canyon State, and was one of the no votes on both cloture and the final passage of the CR Friday. He’s officially joined the anti-Elon Musk chorus of lefties. So much so, that he sold his beloved Tesla, because he didn’t want to be viewed as a hypocrite. What did he buy instead? 

New ride is here. Built by union labor here in America thanks to @UAW! pic.twitter.com/wfpNmY1qkZ

— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) March 16, 2025

Senator Kelly, who is a big proponent of the climate change theory, has often cited his time as an astronaut on how fragile the Earth’s atmosphere is and the dire need to take immediate action. He’s always been a proponent of electric vehicles as part of the solution to the climate crisis. Except now, the bigger crisis is Elon Musk reducing the size of government, not whether the climate is unstable. 

Kelly has dumped his electric Tesla for not one, but two Chevy Tahoes – one for his home in Washington, D.C., and one for his place in Tucson. The Chevy Tahoe, a reliable ride to be sure, rocks about 15 miles per gallon. It’s not exactly the most fuel efficient number out there. You’ll notice that Kelly did not replace his Tesla with another electric car. Rivians are out there. Ford has a Lightning Truck. There are plenty of SUV’s that are all-electric. None of them sell very well, because demand for them just isn’t there. But that’s irrelevant. Kelly had plenty of options, being that climate change is one of his hot button issues. Except, it’s apparently not. Supporting union jobs and giving the finger to Musk, after he had already given Musk his money by buying the Tesla in the first place, is more important to Kelly than saving the environment. Good to know he just showed how he’s not a hypocrite by, checks notes, being a hypocrite.

His little temper tantrum at Musk is exquisitely well-timed, being that Musk just sent up Rocket Tesla to the International Space Station to bring the replacement crew and facilitate the return of the two astronauts stranded there by the Biden administration for nearly a year. 

Musk: “At the President’s instruction, we are accelerating the return of the [NASA] astronauts [stranded on the International Space Station].”

Trump: “They didn’t have the go-ahead with Biden. He was going to leave them in space!” pic.twitter.com/4lSVoD1zvt

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 19, 2025

Within the space community, including what’s left of NASA, there is tons of blowback at Musk and Trump for this claim, except the point is nobody can articulate clearly why Biden’s team didn’t go get them before Trump came in. 

BREAKING: 🚨 Stranded NASA astronauts personally thank Trump and Musk.pic.twitter.com/XFn5if6Y30

— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) March 16, 2025

Biden treated these two astronauts like he treated Afghanistan in August of 2021. Too harsh? Okay, Joe Biden treated these astronauts like he treated East Palestine, Ohio after the rail disaster. Still unfair? Okay, Joe Biden treated these astronauts like he treated Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene leveled the place. It’s not like Biden doesn’t have a track record of abandoning Americans not only all over the world, but in space, too. The only reason Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are about to make the return trip home is because SpaceX, a private company owned by Elon Musk, were available to make it happen. 

The moment Space X rescued the NASA astronauts Biden left stranded.

Elon didn’t have to do it, he did it for humanity. Thank you SpaceX!
pic.twitter.com/O1YfyxcDOH

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) March 16, 2025

Kelly’s obliviousness about the optics of his little anti-Musk stunt may play to the fever swamp, but in Arizona, it makes him look pretty petty and foolish. Getting out from under a Tesla is one thing. Doing it as Musk is retrieving Americans stuck in space and replacing those cars with gas guzzlers is chef’s kiss. 

I mentioned the seizing and pouncing by conservatives that would be relentless so long as the Democratic Party continues to destroy itself as a credible political party. There might be none better on television right now to do just that than Scott Jennings. He was on the panel of CNN’s State of the Union Sunday show, and gave full marks to Chuck Schumer for standing up and defeating the racist Jim Crow era filibuster on Friday. 

🔥SAVAGE: Scott Jennings praises Chuck Schumer’s “pure courage” for helping “defeat a racist Jim Crow filibuster in the Senate” —

— forcing Jake Tapper to explain that Democrats called the filibuster a racist Jim Crow relic when they were out of power (and now they love it). pic.twitter.com/dpFht0Kwwz

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 16, 2025

Here’s the ‘when, not if’, closing question. When Wilmore and Williams touch terra firma for the first time in a year, who will be the first Democrat to criticize the feat? You know it is going to happen. Someone on television, just because these two came back on Trump’s watch, facilitated by Elon Musk, will find a way to throw shade on it. 

Maybe it’ll be Nicolle Wallace, who will say, “Sure, it’s great they’re finally back, but I worry not about the effect zero gravity had on their body, but what the next Trump-led J6 insurrection will do to their soul. I hope they don’t end up committing suicide.” 

Perhaps it’ll be Joy Behar on the View, saying “These two astronauts should be deported along with Elon Musk, because they overstayed their space visa.” 

You know someone, somewhere, will step on that rake. And when it happens, I’ll be there to capture the video clip.