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We have a colleague in the Senate that's actually done much more sinister and serious kinds of things. Senator Menendez. He needs to go. And if you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate...? Menendez is really a Senator for Egypt, not New Jersey. I really think he needs to go.
John Fetterman is not at the DNC and I gotta say I'm loving his character arc
Senator John Fetterman, in an apparent effort to fulfill The Babylon Bee prophecy, has decided to skip the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
The Hamas kids and their public representatives were apparently too much for Mr. Fetterman. Though he's playing coy here and just going with the "I want to spend time with my kids" approach, which is just lovely.
‘I've got three young kids, and they're out of school,' the Pennsylvania senator said of his absence this week in Chicago, waving off the suggestion that he might not be welcome there. ‘That's four days I can spend with my children.'
John, we know you're just out here making Bee jokes come true on purpose.

Democrat Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has declared that he would vote “from an open mind and an informed opinion” on President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks. ...
“I believe that it’s appropriate and the responsibility of a U.S. Senator to have a conversation with President-elect Trump’s nominees,” Fetterman wrote in his post on X.
“That’s why I met with Elise Stefanik and Pete Hegseth, just wrapped with Tulsi Gabbard, and look forward to my meetings with others soon.
“My votes will come from an open mind and an informed opinion after having a conversation with them.
“That’s not controversial, it’s my job,” Fetterman wrote.
Calling your own constituents dipshits is probably not a winning strategy.
Calling your own constituents dipshits is probably not a winning strategy.
Your typical Green & Libertarian voters won't vote at all if their ticket is not on the ballot anyway.
Could be, but the Dems sure fight hard to keep the Greens off the ballot.
Speaking of John Fetterman, the casual dresser is wandering near the borders of the Democrat reservation and corporate media doesn’t like it. CNN ran the story yesterday headlined, “MAGA’s new darling: Dem. John Fetterman?”
... Details were oddly unavailable. None of the stories reporting Fetterman’s trip to Mar-a-Lago said precisely when the meeting happened. But apparently it was over the weekend. In any event, John Fetterman, who sponsored the Laken Riley Act, just became the first Democrat Senator since the election to meet with President Trump.
When last week a reporter asked the vaccine-injured Senator why he was going to Mar-a-Lago, Fetterman joked, “so Trump can make me the Pope of Greenland.” It was pretty funny. Fetterman might be the only Democrat to defend Trump’s Greenland idea, calling it uncontroversial and comparing it to the Louisiana Purchase. ...
Trump’s support for Fetterman isn’t surprising; it is politically sound. Trump may soon need some Democrat allies, given the Never-Trumper hostility he still faces in the McConnell wing of the Senate GOP.
Fetterman is not some kind of insta-conservative. He still holds countless crazy progressive positions, like letting boys play girls’ sports, but he’s shattering all the modern rules. Before November, any Democrat straying off the progressive plantation like this would be immediately destroyed politically, as a warning to any other Democrats who might start getting bright ideas.
So, if the Democrats don’t destroy Fetterman for his sudden and unexpected betrayal by talking to Trump, it will be more evidence his party has become leaderless in the wake of its recent shellacking.
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The vote to confirm PAM BONDI as attorney general was 54-46
The lone DEMOCRAT voting in support: John Fetterman
The vote to confirm PAM BONDI as attorney general was 54-46
The lone DEMOCRAT voting in support: John Fetterman
During a new interview, Fetterman agreed that the Democratic Party’s brand has grown “toxic” after years of “shaming and scolding” voters. ...
“I think their primary currency was shaming and scolding and talking down to people and telling them ‘Hey, I know better than you, or you’re dopes, or you’re a bro, or you’re ignorant or, how can you be this dumb? I can’t imagine it. And then, by the way, they’re fascists. How can you vote for that?’”
“And you know, when you’re in a state like Pennsylvania, I know and I love people that voted for Trump, and they’re not fascist,” he continued.
“They don’t support insurrection and those things. ...
“And once [they’ve] kind of turned their back on that demographic, it’s going to be difficult to rebuild and replace that with those voters because I think that migration has been an ongoing phenomenon for several years and that has been in front and center in part of the election in ’24,” he concluded.
Since the election, Fetterman has been very critical of his party for ignoring or dismissing key issues like appealing to men or stopping the border crisis.
Fetterman Urges Fellow Democrats to Stop Smearing Trump as ‘Hitler’ After Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Democrat Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is pushing back against members of his own party for repeatedly labeling President Donald Trump “Hitler” or an “autocrat.”
The senator is warning that such rhetoric is dangerous in the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a campus event at Utah Valley University.
Speaking to CNN’s Manu Raju, Fetterman said Democrats need to stop fanning the flames of political violence.
“I think you just don’t ever, ever compare anyone to Hitler and those kinds of extreme things,” Fetterman said.
“Now, look what happened to Charlie Kirk.
“I mean, you know, the man was shot.
“Now, we have to turn the temperature down.
“We can’t compare people to these kinds of figures in history.
“And this is not an autocrat.
“This is a product of a democratic election.”
Pressed on whether Trump is “shattering norms of democracy,” Fetterman replied:
“I’m saying he’s definitely different, but that’s what America voted for. ...
The Pennsylvania Democrat went further, acknowledging his party’s repeated failures at the ballot box and warning against demonizing half the country.
“Right now, I think it’s entirely appropriate to really be honest and just figure out why exactly have we effectively lost two out of the last three cycles,” Fetterman said.
“We’ve really kind of lost our connection with American voters in ways.
“And I think we can‘t just be ‘well, Trump is always wrong’ or that ‘we‘re going to set the country on fire.’ ...
Fetterman’s remarks stand in stark contrast, signaling rare dissent within Democrat ranks.

“As you know, 42 million Americans, including two million Pennsylvanians, will not receive food stamps or SNAP benefits this month because funding officially lapsed yesterday,” Tapper said.
“The White House says this is the fault of Democrats for shutting down the government.
“Democrats note that the Trump administration is not dipping into the contingency funds for SNAP, and they think that Trump is doing that to pressure Democrats.
“How do you see it? Who do you blame for this?”
Fetterman responded by expressing concern over the millions of Americans facing food insecurity.
He continued by conceding that Democrats were responsible for the closure.
“And again, I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown,” Fetterman said.
“I mean, we’re shutting it down.
“I know why they claim — because they want to address the tax credits, and I fully support that.
“I voted for all of their CRs, our CRs, every single time.
“And I refuse to put 42 million Americans in the kinds of food insecurity. …
“All is solved by just reopen[ing] our government, and the people are now paid.”
The Pennsylvania senator said he was frustrated by the impact on working Americans.
As you know, 42 million Americans, including two million Pennsylvanians, will not receive food stamps or SNAP benefits this month because funding officially lapsed yesterday,” Tapper said.
Patrick says
As you know, 42 million Americans, including two million Pennsylvanians, will not receive food stamps or SNAP benefits this month because funding officially lapsed yesterday,” Tapper said.
So 12% of Americans are on food stamps? Gotta be a bit of fraud in that high number.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has sharply criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), accusing him of endangering tens of millions of Americans amid the standoff between Republicans and Democrats over healthcare subsidies and the recent government shutdown.
The remarks came shortly before Fetterman was rushed to a Pennsylvania hospital on Thursday.
The senator remains hospitalized in Pittsburgh after suffering a fall caused by a ventricular fibrillation flare-up.
Podcast host Katie Couric pressed Fetterman on comments from Sanders.
Sanders claimed Democrats, including Fetterman, who voted with Republicans to reopen the government, were paving “the way for 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid” and risking sharply higher premiums for millions more.
“Well, you know, Bernie should answer why he’s OK with putting 42 million Americans to face mass food insecurity, or he can explain to the military why it’s OK not to pay them and the tens of millions of Americans that are going to be flying and are flying,” Fetterman responded.
Eight Senate Democrats broke with party leadership to approve a House-passed continuing resolution (CR) on Sunday night.
President Donald Trump signed the measure on Wednesday, ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
The impasse stemmed from disputes over healthcare provisions tied to government funding.
Trump and Republicans argued Democrats sought to provide illegal immigrants healthcare coverage, pointing in particular to a provision repealing part of Trump’s tax and domestic policy package, referred to by the president as the “big, beautiful bill,” that reduced Medicaid eligibility for non-U.S. citizens.
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