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“Gloom, despair and agony on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery.” For some reason, whenever the media and The Left (same thing) start talking about something they want me to fear, I start singing that old chestnut from Hee Haw. They have been trying to scare us about the shutdown tomorrow night at 11:59 p.m. for about ten days and yet I still sing the “Gloom” song and don’t care. It’s Government Shutdown Eve and, like J.D. Vance “I really don’t care, Margaret.”.
If you missed: “I don’t really care, Margaret” courtesy of @VP: pic.twitter.com/YKtA6zRPlk
— Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) January 27, 2025
“I really don’t care” works for so many things and on so many levels. Especially when it comes to a Government Shutdown, right? It’s not like they threaten us with shutdowns all the time. Except they do. The last time was March of THIS YEAR. Two months after the Trump Inauguration. Our Deanna wrote up “Schumer Signals That A Government Shutdown Is Coming”. Yes, they threatened us with a shutdown only six months ago and it was narrowly averted with an emergency spending bill.
Semafor titled its article “Washington hurtles toward a shutdown”:
Washington is still on the same course it was taking before Monday’s big White House meeting: straight into a government shutdown at midnight on Wednesday.
The first sitdown between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders in both parties didn’t last long, and participants left sticking to their messages.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the onus was on Democrats to accept their stopgap spending bill, while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said they wouldn’t cave in their drive for extended health care subsidies.
“They come in here and say: ‘If you don’t give us everything we want, we’re going to shut down the government.’ We think it’s preposterous,” Vice President JD Vance told reporters afterward. “I think we’re headed to a shutdown.”
I really don’t care. Speaking of J.D. Vance, he came out and spoke to the press with Thune and Johnson:
Vance is a rock star.
Minority Leader Chuck U. Schumer got his tongue stuck to the frozen flagpole because of that perceived weakness with the March almost Government Shutdown. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez started measuring for new drapes in his office right in front of him the last time, so he is a little afraid. He is sending out feelers per Axios:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is sounding out his members about a spending bill to reopen the government for seven to 10 days — if a shutdown is in fact triggered on Oct. 1, according to people familiar with the matter.
Why it matters: Schumer’s Plan B anticipates a government shutdown. He and Senate Democrats are also starting to think about how to get out of one.
A 7–10 day spending bill would require unanimous consent in the Senate, which could put pressure on Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Republicans to abandon their plans for a seven-week bill.
Schumer’s conversations with his colleagues are just in their initial phases.
Publicly, Schumer is still demanding that Republicans commit to reversing some of Trump’s earlier spending cuts and support fresh money for premium health care tax credits in exchange for Democratic votes for a seven-week spending package.The Washington Post issued another warning for Schumer last night:
If you want to know why Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is not going to provide the seven Democratic votes needed to keep the government open this Tuesday, just ask Nathan Sage, one of the two Iowa Democrats vying to replace retiring Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), if he would support Schumer to continue as the leader of Senate Democrats.
“Hell no,” Sage told reporters last week. “It’s about damn time he seems like he’s starting to fight for us. It’s almost too late at this point.”
Sage is not the only Democrat aspiring to be a senator who is on the record opposing Schumer’s leadership of the caucus. None of Sage’s opponents in the Democratic primary has come out in support of Schumer, and those who have voiced an opinion are against the New York Democrat.
“My opponents, on both sides of the aisle, seem all too happy to defer to an old guard that has failed our state. Not me,” Iowa state Sen. Zach Wahls said in a statement. “It’s time for new leadership.”
Schumer felt that.
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch has a superior idea:
.@LeaderJohnThune: Dems seek $1 trillion in more spending to keep government "open." I suggest Thune counter with $1 trillion in less government spending! https://t.co/zU2Hl6WnuW
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) September 29, 2025
That whole illegal immigrant health care thing should just be something that gets Schumer a soul-bleeding look, anyway. No one deserves it more than oleaginous Chuck.
I don’t know how you plan to celebrate Government Shutdown Eve 2025, but I am going to pour a glass of wine, put my feet up and read.
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