wdhughes.bsky.social@fetterman.senate.gov this is my first like... screed. You can't be serious. You won't vote for "chaos?" WTAF do you think is happening now, WITH a #Congress approved budget?! Do you think #PresidentMusk and his pet #Trump and the #DOGEbags will somehow be MORE chaotic during a #shutdown? FFS... /1
... You'll "never" vote for a #government shutdown? Way to hand your opponents a loaded weapon. Dealing in absolutes is how we ended up with #MAGA in charge in the first place. You need to start playing hardball with these assholes, because they're playing hardball with us. Maybe you don't care? /2
#MikeJohnson is the jackass who engineered this last-minute bullshit. He knew when the funding would run out. He is the one that built this accursed #ContinuingResolution with no #Democratic support. He's the one that put us in this position. But you're going to play his disingenuous game and ... /3
... put the blame on #Democrats? Are you really so easily manipulated? So easily played? Is that what the people of the #Commonwealth want? (That word, "commonwealth," is really important in terms of government, but you don't seem to care.)
This is a #Republican problem and Republicans need ... /4
...they'll use it to make the "chaos" you're so terrified of. Why don't you grow a pair of tits and woman up and stand your ground and force the Republicans to make a deal and serve the people of #Pennsylvania and #America instead of wimpering and mewling about "oooh chaos" and "oooh shutdown" .../6
BY THE WAY, you'd think you know this since you're in the #USSenate for christ's sake, but they have a couple of #Reconciliations - but a LIMITED number - they can use where they only need 50+1 votes in the #Senate to pass. They could fund the government that way. But they don't want to... /7
...because they want to use Reconciliation to REALLY fuck over every American that's not a mililonaire. You're giving them exactly what they need to kill #SocialSecurity, to kill #Medicaid, to kill the #VA, and to give a giant tax cut to billionaires. They're playing you, son... /8
... and you're letting it happen. Maybe not with a smile on your face, but with "no chaos" on your lips.
You're tough? Bullshit. You're an appeaser. You're #Chamberlain spreading your cheeks for #OrangeHitler. Or maybe you're looking at #LittleMarco and thinking "how can I get some of that action?"