What in the name of human decency — which he doesn’t possess — is Donald J. Trump trying to assert with this latest idiotic declaration?
He said this week that “most federal employees are Democrats” and said they are those who are most concerned about the partial shutdown of the federal government. They have been furloughed, not getting paid, which I guess in Trump’s mind means that congressional Democrats are more liable to support those workers because of their party affiliation. Is that what he means?
The president’s idiocy prompts a couple of questions.
What difference does it make which party they identify with? Why does it matter whether they’re mostly Democrat, mostly Republican, mostly socialist, communist or Whig?
Is the president trying, therefore, to lay all the blame on Democrats as a way to deflect the criticism that is coming directly at him and those in his political party?
Let’s recall briefly an element that preceded this shutdown.
Senators voted 100 to zero to approve a spending bill that did not contain money for The Wall. They sent the bill to the House of Representatives, where House leaders agreed in principle to send the measure to the president’s desk. Then the president got a snootful from right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh and right-wing gadfly Ann Coulter. Then Trump changed his mind and told GOP lawmakers that he wouldn’t sign the bill after all.
Now this goofball is fabricating some phony scenario that suggests that “most federal employees are Democrats.”
I have to ask: To what end does he intend to take this ridiculous assertion?
When Bush 43 was President, the Democrats voted to build a wall, just didn’t “appropriate” any funding for it. I believe that was in 2006. We can disagree about whether a concrete wall, metal barrier, chain-link fence was what they meant, but the truth was that they were in favor of a physical barrier, not electronic surveillance, drones flying overhead, or more cameras. Only two things have changed in 12 years; we have a President who actually wants to build a barrier system to secure the border, and that President is Donald Trump. Just a thought.