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Top Obama insider betrays Democratic Party

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

Today, the 16th day of the federal government shutdown, brings Democrats good news and bad news.

The “good” news, for them, is that their refusal to give up government healthcare funding for illegal aliens is hurting the military and the wider economy.

The bad news is that voters—even fellow Democrats—are starting to blame Democratic Party.

One of the most important figures in the Obama administration just came out swinging against the dangers of the government closure.

“I’m gonna break from the party line here on this. I’m a Democrat, (but) I’m with John Fetterman and Angus King,” two senators who want to fund the government, said Obama’s Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson.

“I believe that Congress should vote to re-open the government,” said ex-Secretary Johnson, whose DHS spied on a huge number of Americans during the Obama years.

Johnson made no bones about who bore the blame for the funding gap, which Republicans have dubbed the “Schumer Shutdown”: It’s with Democrats, he said.

Senate Democrats have used the filibuster to stymie Republican efforts to pass a clean continuing resolution that keeps the government funded through November 21—and Johnson refused to lie for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

“Apparently, you need seven Democrats to (overcome a filibuster) in the Senate. I think that the mistake our democracy is making is linking the need for that 60 votes to some other issue, even though it’s a very, very critical issue,” like continuing oversized Obamacare subsidies, said Johnson. “Because what’s going to happen is that this will occur every fall from this point forward.”

“The most basic function of Congress is to fund the government, turn the lights on, keep the government working so that the three million people who are public servants are able to do what they do,” he said.

What’s more incredible is, he’s far from the only Democrat to blame his own party.

Experts disagree on how much the government shutdown hurts the overall economy—but everyone agrees a prolonged shutdown will have an impact—even Democratic “experts.”

“Shutdowns that don’t last for very long kind of do nothing to the aggregate economy because, yeah, they weren’t paid, but people’s spending doesn’t go down, because they know they’re going to be paid eventually,” said Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee, a former Obama adviser. “If there are reasons why this shutdown looks different than previous ones, then we would have to revise.”

The Democrats’ callous indifference has led some of their voters to consider jumping ship. “I think I’m going to be leaving the Democrat Party, because this happens too often—where they’re blaming the opposite party when they know they can” reopen the government at will, a caller from California, who identified himself as a Democrat, told C-SPAN this morning. “They need to do the right thing and reopen this government instead of keeping it shut down like they’re hijacking the American people.”

As the government shutdown enters the second week, polls show Americans from every background are starting to feel the same way.

Voters are three points more likely to blame Democrats for the shutdown than they were last week—and three points less likely to blame President Trump and the Republicans, according to a new YouGov/The Economist poll released yesterday. While more people pin the blame for the current impasse on the GOP, the gap is falling by the day. The share of respondents blaming both sides equally also fell by three points in seven days.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll from earlier this month found Americans blamed Democrats more than Republicans.

How could anyone think otherwise, when the Senate’s most liberal “progressive” admitted the entire government shutdown occurred to give Democrats more negotiating room?

“Ya we reopen the government, and we lose our leverage,” admitted Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on CNN.

That remark blew the game out of the water, said a high-ranking House conservative. “They always talk about taking care of our first responders, of our military, of our poor, and yet they are the ones that will not fund the military,” Texas Republican Congressman Keith Self, a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, told Newsmax.

Already, the economy is hurting soldiers and military readiness.

The bank that serves American soldiers, USAA, has offered enlisted men and women $250 million in loans to make ends meet. Otherwise, service members have to rely on Army Emergency Relief, relatives, and digging into savings.

When soldiers have to wonder where their next meal is coming from, “it absolutely hurts mission readiness, it hurts our focus, and it hurts our national security,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), who chairs the conservative Republican Study Committee, told Michael Knowles.

President Trump alleviated concerns the military would not be paid by tapping into tariff money—a move House Democrats say is illegal…and they’ve threatened to sue him in court to keep America’s military poor and hungry.

“Now the radical Democrats are going to sue to stop the President from paying our troops and protecting vulnerable Americans? They’re despicable and heartless!” said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.

But the Trump administration has laid a trap that may cause Democratic voters some economic pain.

 

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has already fired 4,000 federal bureaucrats—who vote for the Democratic Party at abnormally high levels—and he’s said that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The total number of planned layoffs will “probably end up being north of 10,000,”  Vought revealed on Wednesday’s episode of The Charlie Kirk Show.

“We’re going to keep those RIFs (reduction in force announcements) rolling throughout this shutdown, because we think it’s important to stay on offense for the American taxpayer,” said the budget-cutting OMB director. “We want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy, not just the funding.”

Maybe if Democrats start to feel the pain, they will stop holding soldiers hostage and let them receive their paychecks.

America needs to shut down liberalism and root it out of government, lock, stock, and barrel.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”