Not only is Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) unapologetic for lowering the standard in the once-august upper U.S. government chamber, he has gone on the offensive in defending Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to essentially remove a dress code.
As a result of that decision, the cognitively challenged Democrat can wear his signature hoodie and shorts on the Senate floor without violating the Senate dress code — former Trump aide Stephen Miller summed it up well when he said Fetterman has “turned the Senate into a coddling daycare for an emotionally stunted man-child with severely arrested development.”
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was among the many who voiced criticism of the decision to lower the bar, which prompted Fetterman to push back in a tweet calling her out for “displaying ding-a-ling pics in public hearings.”
Thankfully, the nation’s lower chamber lives by a higher code of conduct: displaying ding-a-ling pics in public hearings. https://t.co/a4sLQ7nSBL
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) September 18, 2023
The mention of “ding-a-ling pics” is a reference to the House Oversight Committee hearing where Greene displayed poster-size nude photos from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop to support her claim that he had engaged in sex trafficking and listed payments to sex workers as a tax write-off.
As might be expected, MSNBC also gave Fetterman — who began disregarding the Senate dress code after his six-week hospitalization for clinical depression — a platform to ridicule those who took a stand for respect and decorum.
Of course, it’s far easier for Fetterman to tweet a coherent sentence — assuming that he posts his own tweets — than it is for him to voice that sentence:
Democrat Senator John Fetterman responds to concerns over changing the Senate dress code to accommodate his hoodies and gym shorts:
“Her platform, you know, really, she runs on more and more dingaling, you know, pics, you know, on in the meetings over in Congress” pic.twitter.com/t86oC5S7VZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 19, 2023
As for lowering standards, here’s a sampling of the rhetoric voters can expect from Fetterman as he spoke about the need for Republicans to “go hump a different leg” while commenting on passing a stopgap funding measure:
Go hump a different leg? Really? pic.twitter.com/CadDiIpe4x
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) September 19, 2023
There seemed to be an overriding theme in the responses to Fetterman’s tweet, as seen here from X:
Does anyone believe that the guy who can’t button his shirt is writing his own tweets? https://t.co/T4Yb1LO2tM
— John Dennis (@RealJohnDennis) September 18, 2023
I wonder what genius writes these for fetterman since he is unable to communicate https://t.co/k7QY6lmvvN
— Michael McGee (@mrcoldshower) September 18, 2023
I love how your staff types stuff like this for you to try and make believe that you aren’t a complete buffoon.
— Famous Economist Milton Keynes (@FamousMilton) September 19, 2023
I wonder who types these posts for Fetterman…
— The Yootopian (@TheYootopian) September 19, 2023
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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