Just Correcting the Record, on the So-Called US Government Shutdown…

Because, for some unfortunate reason, it seems sadly necessary.

The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives passed a bill on September 19, 2025, to continue previously-voted-upon business as usual while negotiations about future budget changes went forward. That bill subsequently went to the Senate, where it failed to pass because it didn’t get 60 votes to continue with government spending as it had been voted, and agreed upon, by both parties for years. 

Since that date, Republicans in the Senate have introduced (so far) thirteen motions to just continue government spending as it’s been voted and agreed upon, by both Republicans and Democrats for years. Democrats, however, don’t seem to want to own their previous votes, and they’re blocking the continuation, for what can only be described as political reasons, most likely a rather feeble power play by Chuck Schumer, who’s afraid of  Alexandria Ocasio Cortez , and who doesn’t want to face her in a Senate primary vote in 2028. 

Should that happen, just the cook-off should be a gas!

Great.  What might be American cheese on a raw beef patty.  Can’t wait till you turn it over when half-cooked through, and see what happens…

But wait!  There’s more:

“There’s too much CO2!  “Even if we bomb Russia! We need to eat the babies!!!  We only have a few months left!”

Please notice that AOC never disavows anything this lunatic in the audience says. 

Kudos to Democrats John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, and Independent (caucusing with the Democrats) Angus King of Maine, who voted with the Republicans to advance the most-recent bill continuing government based on previous voting patterns.  This resulted, in the thirteenth vote to continue government spending, on October 28, 2025 , in a final vote of 54 to 45. 

Still, the vote to continue the same spending that both parties have agreed upon for years has failed.

You want to talk about a clusterfuck?  This is a clusterfuck.  But it ain’t one of the Republicans’ making.

Boy, howdy, though. Doesn’t Chuck Schumer look like a hunk?

Ugh.