{"id":2492887,"date":"2025-09-30T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:33:29","slug":"keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Listening To Kamala, Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkeep-listening-to-kamala-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2492887&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes the Democratic Party for pushing toward a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-democratic-senator-comes-out-against-bidens-vaccine-mandate-supports-legislation-to-overturn\/\" title=\"Top Democratic Senator Comes Out Against Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandate, Supports Legislation To Overturn\">federal government shutdown<\/a> as a political strategy, despite the negative consequences and lack of good options. It argues that Democrats, driven by their &#8220;anti-American base,&#8221; prefer to engage in futile fights rather than cooperate with Republicans to keep government funding at current levels. The piece highlights that Republicans have little incentive to support increased healthcare subsidies demanded by Democrats, and a shutdown ultimately benefits Republicans by allowing them to cut bureaucracy under the discretion of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is cited urging Democrats to stand firm and blame Republicans for the shutdown.The author contends that government shutdowns have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/executive-actions-will-only-take-trump-so-far-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Executive actions will only take Trump so far - Washington Examiner\">minimal real impact<\/a> on essential services but <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >generate media hysteria<\/a>, mostly benefiting Republicans politically. The article concludes by suggesting Democrats will have to explain the futile shutdown fight to their voters when it ends and normal government operations resume.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hygSwuJMXXg\" target=\"_blank\">ABC\/YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Keep%20Listening%20To%20Kamala,%20Democrats&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Keep%20Listening%20To%20Kamala,%20Democrats&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Keep%20Listening%20To%20Kamala,%20Democrats&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/30\/keep-listening-to-kamala-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Democrats have once again decided it&rsquo;s a good time to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/17\/democrats-should-definitely-keep-picking-fights-they-cant-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pick a losing fight<\/a> because the party&rsquo;s ridiculous, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Traitors-Democrat-Partys-Collapse-Anti-American\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PCDmPMX86i4dQNWyP1JRfveINMx0lrsKnLmtjp0EJUvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.6Zg5xld97nKaMojjctWcXIGkthfdDoBmEIlNP7DzToU&amp;qid=1759248172&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-American base<\/a> can&rsquo;t see anything through to its logical end. In this case it&rsquo;s pushing for a federal government shutdown, a scenario in which Democrats have no good options, but they&rsquo;re ready to pick the worst one if it means &ldquo;fighting&rdquo; for the sake of it.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Democrats have done on virtually every other major issue &mdash;&nbsp;crime, immigration, bureaucratic waste &mdash; they&rsquo;re positioning themselves to do the most counterproductive thing possible. Rather than vote with Republicans to keep government funding at current levels, they&rsquo;re angling to shut it down, unless Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/what-are-democrats-republicans-positions-us-government-shutdown-fight-2025-09-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agree to passing more &ldquo;health care&rdquo; subsidies<\/a> (i.e., welfare). The problem for them, though, is Republicans have no major incentive to support the additional welfare, given that they ran on and were elected opposing it, and in any event, a shutdown gives the White House immense discretion in choosing which federal agencies to keep open.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1176926326\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In other words, Republicans benefit either way. If the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-sends-government-funding-bill-to-senate-after-gop-senators-threatened-delay-over-vaccine-mandates\/\" title=\"House Sends ... Bill To Senate After GOP Senators Threatened Delay Over Vaccine Mandates\">government stays open<\/a>, President Trump&rsquo;s agenda continues, at least until the midterms, more than a year away. If it closes, Democrats just handed the keys to Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, who will gleefully set about cutting hundreds more bureaucrats (Democrat voters). Democrats in Washington are well aware of the dilemma, but their base is demoralized and a lot of the party&rsquo;s leaders, especially the ones who want to run for president, think it&rsquo;s better to indulge it with a shutdown now, at least for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Kamala Harris, renowned for her political prowess as a master legislator, is one of those leaders. &ldquo;Republicans run the Senate. They run the House, and they run the White House,&rdquo; she said at an event Monday for her book tour in Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2025\/09\/30\/shutdown-blame-game-00586110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> Politico. She argued for Democrats to &ldquo;stand firm as the Republicans shut down the government. &hellip; Because it won&rsquo;t be the Democrats, it will be the Republicans.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Please listen to Kamala, Democrats. When has she ever let you down?<\/p>\n<p>Another advantage Republicans have in this absurd affair is that America has been through shutdowns before, and because all the important agencies are deemed &ldquo;essential,&rdquo; nothing really happens. A swath of government workers get some unplanned time off, and that&rsquo;s about it. To the extent that shutdowns are actually disruptive to the average person, it&rsquo;s that the dying cable news business goes into hysteria about them every time. Well, there are fewer and fewer people every day who care what CNN and MSNBC have to say.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats can &ldquo;fight&rdquo; with a shutdown if they want to. And then they can explain to their voters what that was all about when it makes no difference and they ultimately vote to reopen the government.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span 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