Democrats Blame Republicans for Multiple Democrat Failures

A key reason Democrats make so many Republicans grind our molars is that they will not take responsibility for their own gargantuan failures. Instead, Democrats blame the GOP for the damage that they inflict on America.

It’s bad enough when someone takes a skillet and repeatedly wallops you across the back of your head. What really irks is when that person then screams at you: “Stop smacking your skull with a skillet!”

This is a big part of why Democrats have become utterly insufferable.

Last week alone, Democrats refused to own their disastrous Schumer Shutdown. Thankfully, Democrats’ 43-day kidnapping conspiracy fizzled out on Wednesday night. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to end the federal shutdown one day after eight Senate Democrats joined nearly unanimous Republicans, stopped the Democrats’ filibuster and adopted legislation to reopen the government.

Shortly before the House vote, Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn took to the floor and presented a master class in how to shirk responsibility and shift blame.

“Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the presidency,” Jeffries said. “Donald Trump and Republicans made the decision to shut the government down, the longest shutdown in American history.”

Wrong!

House Republicans passed a “clean” continuing resolution on Sept. 19. It would have sustained Biden-era federal spending on autopilot until Jan. 30. There were no strings, budget cuts, or policy reforms attached.

This bill went to the Senate, where—as Jeffries damn-well knows—overall Republican control is limited by the requirement for 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. Republicans have only 53 votes, seven short of the number needed to adopt the House bill.

Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York weaponized this rule and launched the Democrat filibuster that shut down the federal government on Oct. 1. 

Fourteen separate times, Senate Republicans (absent the dissenting Rand Paul of Kentucky), voted to end the Democrat filibuster. While three Democrats concurred with the GOP, Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota still fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to stop Schumer from holding the American people and their government hostage until Democrats scored $192.8 billion for illegal-alien health care.

Jeffries knows all of this. Nonetheless, he stood up and lied about it.

Jeffries continued to blame Republicans for his party’s flops. “House Democrats will continue to fight to address the health care crisis that Republicans have created,” Jeffries said. A huge part of America’s pounding migraine on health insurance is Democrats’ proudest baby: Obamacare. To say that this is a baby only a mother could love is an insult to ugly babies.

Obamacare was supposed to lower insurance premiums by $2,500. Instead, they have soared by at least that much. The entire boondoggle is a fiscal tumor that requires massive taxpayer subsidies to stay alive. Democrats are desperate to keep these subsidies flowing, lest Obamacare flatline.

Democrats cannot blame the GOP for this mess. No Republican wanted Obamacare, and no congressional Republican voted for it. Democrats own Obamacare and every one of its painful symptoms.

Jeffries then denounced “the Republican refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.” Once again, Jeffries cannot pin this on the GOP. These tax credits are scheduled to expire on New Year’s Eve because that is exactly what Democrats wanted!

As Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute detailed for me, Section 9661 of the COVID-fueled Biden/Democrat American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 included “expanding premium assistance” as a “Temporary rule for 2021 and 2022.” Later, Section 12001 of the Biden/Democrat Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 aimed to “improve affordability and reduce premium costs of health insurance … before Jan. 1, 2026.”

“A proposal being weighed by congressional Democrats and party advisers in recent weeks aims to temporarily extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies that were part of the financial aid package President Joe Biden signed into law last March,” Politico explained on June 24, 2022, regarding this second bill.

If Democrats wanted to subsidize Obamacare into 2026 and beyond, they should have written that into legislation that they, not Republicans, sponsored.

As the saying goes, “When you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at you.” Jeffries and other Democrats should remember that before, yet again, giving Republicans the finger.

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