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Democrats Again Fall Into TrumpMuskMAGA Trap of Playing Blame Game [1]

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Date: 2025-03-15

By Karen Rubin, [email protected], news-photos-features.com

Democrats threatening to punish Minority Leader Schumer and Senate Democrats for the CR cloture vote (but voted AGAINST the actual CR) are once again doing TrumpMuskMAGA work for them. This circular firing squad only benefits the WhiteChristoFascists. Sen. Schumer did right thing to prevent TrumpMusk from shutting down government, so they would have unfettered ability to in one fell swoop literally shut down government and fire people who would not have recourse, and then blame Democrats for the misery produced by shutting down government. TrumpMusk was salivating over being able to shift focus and blame for his criminal destruction of economy and alliances, instead of focusing blame for the CR on the MAGA Republicans yielding Congress’ Constitutional authority over the budget to TrumpMusk, done with explicit EXCLUSION of Democrats’ input (reminder: 75 MILLION voted AGAINST TrumpMusk). Now, because all but 2 Democrats voted for the CR, whatever TrumpMusk and the Republicans destroy is on the House Republicans.

Speaker Johnson and the MAGA Republicans left Democrats in a no-win position with no way to actually stop this chainsaw train, except if government stayed open and the judiciary continued to function. Did these Democrats learn nothing when 10 million Biden voters showed their pique at Biden-Harris by staying home from the 2024 election, handing over government and the fate of the United States for decades to come to TrumpMuskMAGA?

(By the way, only 63.4% of the eligible voting population cast a ballot in 2024, compared to 65.3% in 2020, an actual drop of 3.2 million voters, the actual difference in the popular vote; Harris really only lost by 150,000 votes among three of the swing states, helped by voter suppression and, yes, Russian election interference, so hardly the “historic landslide” TrumpMuskMAGA is claiming to justify destroying the United States.)

Meanwhile, House Democrats are pretty smug – they could take their vote against the Continuing Resolution without any ramification at all, leaving it to the Senate Democrats to vote to shut down government – and yet, 10 of them stood with the MAGA Republicans in voting to censure Representative Al Green (D-Texas) for his principled stand against Trump during his address to Congress. Hypocritical? Indeed, House Democrats are deflecting blame for failing to effectively stand up to the TrumpMuskMAGA coup, only recently begun to speak out rather than sit back and let the Republicans “dig their own grave” (the MAGA media ecosystem combined with voter suppression won’t let that happen) and have appeared castrated and impotent.

Democrats’ kerfuffle over Senator Schumer taking a principled stand in keeping government open so TrumpMusk could not take advantage and destroy it altogether while casting the blame on Democrats instead of the Republicans who are empowering TrumpMusk, also deflected attention from the outrageous and dangerous speech the dictator wannabe Trump gave at the Department of Justice, laying out his campaign of retribution against political opponents, critics, journalists, judges and prosecutors, cheered on by his political appointees at DoJ who are supposed to be attorneys FOR the PEOPLE, not Trump’s personal legal goons set on destroying the Rule of Law, democracy and the constitution. What 1, 4, 5, 8, 13, 14, 15, 19 Amendments? The only one they care about is 2nd amendment – and have you heard that “my Department of Justice” is restoring gun rights to domestic abusers and felons, as long as they are Friends of Trump like Mel Gibson. If you look over his list of pardons, they are uniformly criminals, fraudsters, sex offenders, sex traffickers, drug traffickers, felons, war criminals – in fact, mirroring his administration appointees.

Keep the focus and the blame where it belongs: TrumpMusk and the MAGAGOP and stop taking the bait, and doing their dirty work for them by dividing and conquering Democrats.

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