Sunday, November 9, 2025

Getting Children Fed Is… Job No. 1 — So We Will Fight This Fight Again, In About 60 Days… Ugh.


It looks like a vote to fund the federal government for about 60 days will come as early as tomorrow. Yes, that "just kicks the can down the alley" -- over the holidays.

But blaming the few Democrats who are compromising here. . . is to simply be a shill for the MAGA / Republicans.

You see, that is exactly the narrative they want told. But this shut down, and the starving of American children. . . is entirely their fault.

Republicans control the White House, the Senate and the US House at the moment. Failing to fund SNAP for the one in five children in America who go hungry more than once a week now, is an egregious moral failing solely residing inside MAGA.

To be sure, I'm deeply disappointed that we haven't solved continuation of Obamacare subsidies / fundings -- in any manner.

But to fall for the "Bernie Bros" formulation of the ultimatum -- which would make any Democrat "a traitor" -- for compromising in any way (even to feed hungry children!). . . is to foolishly play right into Trump's hands -- by not affixing responsibility where it ought to exclusively lie: directly at 1600 Penn. Out.

नमस्ते

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey

condor said...

This is. . . Perfectly-put, Anon.

And as a politician, he’s been unduly marginalized by the writers of Twentieth Century US history. He was a fine, cerebral and kind man.

The quote makes me long for an era of. . . Truer Patriots — now likely permanently lost — to time out of mind.

Thank you, just the same, and namaste.