It is not a matter of debate or opinion. It is a simple fact that this present shutdown was caused by Democrats in Congress, who refused to pass the continuing resolution to fund the government.
The Democrats have every legal right to do so, and some may want to take the position that their shutdown is warranted in order to have their demands met.
But, one thing cannot be debated: This was not a shutdown that was caused by the votes from the Republican side. It was indisputably caused when Democrats refused to sign onto a clean, continuing resolution to keep the government going.
What’s remarkable is that polls are showing that more Americans than not believe the shutdown was caused by Republicans, rather than Democrats.
How can this be, other than the fact that the leftist media spins the stories to make it appear that this was the doing of Donald Trump and the Republican Congress?
Even a friend, who is an executive of a large company, believed that this was a shutdown caused by Trump. He got that perception from reading the headlines and some of the slanted articles that were sent to him on his phone by traditional media outlets.
Case in point: Newsday‘s editorial expressing concern about air traffic safety related to the shutdown. The paper calls for a resolution, while criticizing Republicans for blaming the Dems, claiming both sides should stop the finger-pointing. In the past, the media wasn’t shy to point fingers at Republicans when they recklessly caused a shutdown.
Both sides over the years have sought to close down the government to create leverage to have their positions heard. The parties in power indeed tend to ignore the minority. Thus, the minority’s only option often might be to simply hold out to see if they can get the other side to negotiate.
But this is the first time that we’ve seen a party out of power shut down the government, and yet the party in power was blamed.
We reiterate that you can make the argument that a shutdown is worth it if you think it might get both parties together to negotiate the status of Obamacare subsidies.
But then again, that could also be done if the Democrats simply voted to support the continuing resolution put up for a vote 14 times by the Republicans and sit down and negotiate thereafter.
They refused to take that alternative, hoping that the shutdown was going to inure to their benefit in this election cycle. They were proven correct, as most people were blaming the party in power.
This false narrative being pushed by the Democrats is understandable, but it’s shameful for the media to do their bidding.