Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) may be more conservative than some of his peers, but that doesn’t mean he’s an ally of all Republicans.
More specifically, the senator went on a tear against Democrats who were “celebrating” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her recent disagreements with the GOP. While discussing the vote to end the government shutdown with the co-hosts of The View, Fetterman refused to join those siding with MTG.
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“Senator, Bernie Sanders said the vote was a horrific mistake. Governor Gavin Newsom called it ‘pathetic’ and ‘a surrender.’ Poll after poll found Americans on both sides of the aisle blaming Republicans. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed the GOP. As you mentioned, Democrats had big wins last week, so you had momentum. Why give in now? Why bring a butter knife to a gun fight? Are you willing to gamble that the GOP will negotiate on healthcare in good faith once the government reopens? Because if that gamble is wrong, half a million Pennsylvanians that you represent, their healthcare costs will skyrocket if you are wrong,” co-host Sunny Hostin pressed the moderate Democrat. “And I believe you are wrong.”
“First of all, MTG is quite literally the last person in America that I’m going to take advice from or to get their kind of leadership and values from. And now, if Democrats are celebrating crazypants like that, then that’s on them. I don’t need a lecture from, whether it’s Bernie or the governor in California, because they are representing very deep blue kinds of populations and a lot of those things were part of the extreme,” Fetterman said, unashamed of his principles.
“And now remember what really needs to win, the big win, is involving my state and other states and those things. And why have we arrived here after the election a year ago? We want to forget — we gotta forget some of the things that cost us that election, or now for me it’s like, that’s why I’m trying to remind people that the extreme, we can’t return to those kinds of things, and realize we need to find a way forward. And I would like, rather than cite MTG, I’m going to cite one of the new governor-elects, saying that my election is not a green light to continue this shutdown, because I promise you this isn’t a political gain. It is viewed [as] that by many of us, but the reality is 42 million Americans are now not sure where their next meal is going to come from because we vote like that. Or people that haven’t been paid for five weeks now, and that kind of chaos. Those workers borrow more than half a billion dollars from their credit union just to pay their bills,” he added, justifying the choice to re-open the government rather than punish poor, vulnerable Americans for Democrats not getting their way.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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