Who Is John Fetterman?

My VIP for this week is Senator John Fetterman (D-PA.). I do not usually consider any Democrat as being a VIP, but Fetterman has caught my attention. During his campaign, I wondered why anyone would vote for a man with obvious brain damage. Yet, he has become THE Democrat who makes the most sense in the vast majority of cases.

Fetterman has ruffled the feathers of his fellow Democrats on numerous occasions. His latest act took place last Saturday, and the topic was his criticism about the Democrats’ “ongoing partial government shutdown and its impacts on federal employees and operations.” Harold Hutchison reports the story in his article published at The Daily Signal.

Multiple agencies, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), are being subjected to “emergency measures” due to the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to a release by DHS.

Fetterman said he spoke with TSA agents during his frequent travels about the effects of the shutdown.

“I am the only Democrat that has refused to vote in shutting down DHS, literally the only one,” Fetterman said during Saturday’s episode of “The Big Weekend Show.” “And now all agree that this would not have any impact on ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. They already have their funding, and it doesn’t push or force ICE to do any of those kinds of reforms that people think are necessary now, too.”

“Why would you want to punish all of these workers that are under DHS? The only thing that it can do is just make us less safe, and that also makes people have to go without getting paid,” Fetterman continued. “I’m at the airport virtually every week of the year, and I ask all those TSA agents, and I said, ‘Hey, do you like not to get paid for your work?’ I haven’t met one saying, ‘No, it’s no problem.’”

Democrats are demanding new restrictions on ICE after federal law enforcement officers were involved in the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in January during Operation Metro Surge. The separate incidents occurred amid the deployment of hundreds of federal agents to Minnesota in response to reports about welfare fraud involving Somali migrants.

Fetterman also criticized Democrats over their efforts to block the funding.

“It’s not a big deal, you know,” Fetterman said. “I truly don’t understand that, other than it’s just toxic for a Democrat to agree with something that maybe that the Republican side might agree with that. And now I know that, but it’s very easy: more of a country over party, or ‘I’m going to put those union workers over it,’ or America’s security over the base might demand.”

Fetterman appears to be a common-sense type of man. He sees the foolishness that has taken over the Democrat Party. He is solid in his intention to remain a Democrat, but he sounds more like a Republican than my own Senator Lisa Murkowski does!