November 5, 2025 - by Fred Bates
(This blog is dedicated to exposing a cheating scandal involving the City of San Jose, my attorney Stuart Kirchick, the US District Court in San Jose and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals during litigation of a lawsuit I filed against the City of San Jose for racial and disability discrimination. However, I sometimes comment on issues that I believe are important but unrelated to the purpose of this blog. The government shutdown is one of those issues)
Government shutdowns are antithetical to the role of elected government officials, and they hurt ordinary citizens
The government shutdown shows that we are governed by fools and reprobates. During the government shutdown in 2018, I wrote a post pointing out that the government shut down was evidence of politicians' disdain for average American citizens. The statement can be applied to this current government shutdown as well. Government shutdowns can usually be blamed on both political parties. However, based on the objective facts, this shutdown can be blamed on the Democratic Party. I don't say this because I dislike the Democratic Party and I like the Republican Party. I have disdain for both parties. Even though I must say the radical ideology of the Democrats on abortion, transgenderism, climate change, open borders, their hypocrisy and double standards, and their defund the police and soft-on-crime polices makes them a lot less appealing to me than Republicans. I will expound upon Democrats' hypocrisy and double standards at another time.
Now let's look at the objective evidence that Democrats are to blame for the government shutdown. The shutdown is the result of the budget deadlock between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. There are always differences of opinions between the parties, and sometimes within the parties themselves, on how to prioritize spending. But that's no reason to shut down the government. The Senate is known as the 'world's greatest deliberative body.' This suggests to me that the Senate functions in a way that allows all of it members to participate in the legislative process and that there is extensive debate on potential legislation, including spending bills. Because of the shutdown, obviously, there is no deliberation in the Senate that will facilitate a resolution to the budget deadlock. Democrats have voted at least 14 times against a Continuing Resolution (CR) proposed by Republicans to reopen the government and resume the debate on the spending bill, with the hope of reaching a compromise. The CR does not give an advantage to either party. It is a resolution to reopen the government and continue to fund the government at the current spending level until November 21, 2025, and to resume the debate on a full year spending bill.
It makes no sense to me for the Democrats in the Senate to vote against reopening the government and continuing the debate on a spending bill. This runs counter to the Senate's reputation as the world's greatest deliberative body. The government shutdown shows disrespect for the American people who elects Senators and Representatives to govern and to keep the government open at all times. This shutdown by Democrats is for political theater and, quite possibly, was a stunt to influence yesterday's elections in which Democrats dominated. If this was Democrats' purpose for shutting down the government, the shutdown is a big success for them, but a failure for everyday Americans dependent on the government for paychecks and social services.
