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Affluent Americans must be deeply touched watching the Democratic establishment continue to demand subsidies for their insurance plans. But less-affluent members of the Democratic coalition may start to wonder why their party leadership still doesn’t want to enable funding of food stamps, government paychecks, and myriad other government functions. Perhaps leading congressional Democrats deserve credit for honesty. But they don’t even seem to be pretending to care about anything other than forcing Republicans to share responsibility for the disaster that is ObamaCare. Readers may recall a few weeks ago when House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D., Mass.) admitted that she and her Democratic colleagues were exploiting the funding lapse to advance their agenda: I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have. Now that some Democrats have joined Republicans in the Senate to put Congress on a path to fund the government, a press release from Rep. Clark says not even a word about families who may have been harmed by the shutdown, expresses no remorse and does not even acknowledge that a funded government is good news for people who rely on government assistance. She offers just another partisan rant that Republicans won’t agree to fall into the trap she and her party colleagues deliberately set to hide the full cost of their subsidy scheme until the GOP could be forced to share the blame. Rep. Clark’s press release seems of a piece with
the comments from many other Democrats in the House and Senate railing and raging and caterwauling about an alleged betrayal by their colleagues—who are voting to fund all the agencies and departments that Democrats always insist must be funded. A reasonable person is bound to conclude that Rep. Clark and her angry caucus care more about pushing people into government programs than about the people who already rely on them.
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