Looks like it's gonna be a bumpy ride...
Sen. John Fetterman raises alarms with outburst at meeting with union officials, AP sources say
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union when things quickly devolved.apnews.com
Suddenly the problem comes into focus. My gut tells me this line is the true thesis of this article.
Yes, I can read hearsay and anonymous sources as well as anyone else, thank you.
This is some world class gaslighting given the fact it was Democrats who pretended Fetterman was lucid enough to stay on ballot in 2022…..when he was “politically useful.”
Comparing what we've seen from Fetterman with what we saw from Biden is completely laughable.
Certainly true thus far, but this will be an interesting story to follow.
Could be. Or could be a nothing burger. Until / unless I see it with my own eyes it's a non-story to me as people in DC lie as naturally as you and I breathe.
Was about to make this point as well.
www.theatlantic.com
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When you're looking at the Manchin (etc.!) effect, you don't look at averages, you look at those handful of tight votes where his maverick tendency might come in handy. You can never tell when that might be...For the record “The Atlantic” was singing quite a different tune when they feared losing senate control in 2022:
The Survivor Vote
How John Fetterman’s stroke helped deepen his everyman appeal among some supporters
Don’t Patronize Fetterman
The Pennsylvania Democrat deserves to face the same questions—and to be given the same opportunities—as any other candidate.
Back then, any questioning of him was partisan Republican politics. Amazingly now, just the opposite is also partisan Republican politics.
Also, y’all are welcome to explain how Fetterman was one of 35 Democratic senators to get an “A” rating from Progressive Punch for his votes in his first two years in the Senate. That is a liberal website that monitors all of their votes - and Fetterman scores a top grade, voting with “correctly” 87.2% of the time, placing him ahead of Mark Warner (I guess the fact Virginia has a Republican governor obviously has nothing to do with them not trying to run him out of town) and on CRUCIAL votes he’s ahead of Warner, Slotkin, and Gallego.
I’m sorry, but how Republicans are allegedly benefiting from a guy who votes against them seven out of every eight votes is ridiculous.
I agree with Fetterman 100% on this. Though I believe that the “riots” in LA have been overblown by the media, Newsom and other Democratic leaders should have seized the moment to condemn the violence and emphasized every effort to protect law-abiding citizens. Instead, all we get are criticisms of Trump and his ridiculous response to the situation.
The problem that I have with West Coast governors is that tend to let things spiral out of control in terms of riots before they take the more obvious steps to stop the violence. As bad as Ferguson was, it was far more contained than even the more basic LA riot.
They've had this problem since 1965, largely because they cower in fear of being called a racist (and love to fire that accusation at others). I would argue it's racist to ASSUME that every rioter is "non-white", but a lot of what happens is "mob rule," where a bunch of folks knowing they have backup suddenly grow courage they'd never have in an actual shooting war.
