Rainy day funds and MA Republicans always get me down

Dems flipped the Schumer Shutdown into the SNAP Shutdown and MA GOP fell for it

I get it, you thought to yourself, here is a political angle you could get some traction on: Maura spent all this money on illegals but she won’t spend a single penny on regular Americans who are hungry.

Well of course she won’t. And here is the one and only reason why:

“Massachusetts grew to be #1 for SNAP among rich states because Democrats need poverty to stay in power.”

Anything that shifted the focus away from Schumer, Markey, Warren et al voting to CONTINUE the shutdown was off message. I lost count, how many times did they vote to extend the shutdown 13 or 14 times?

Sooooooooo, when various Massachusetts Republicans - including candidates for Governor and a group of GOP state senators - came out last week suggesting the Commonwealth dip into the rainy day fund to the tune of $200M+ to fund SNAP in November, I was like, dude, you don’t understand the game.

Raiding the state’s rainy day fund to virtue signal your “non-political people first” self righteousness only increases the leverage Katherine Clark so clearly described.

You want to talk about SNAP? Ask how is it possible, that in the Democrat Party utopia of Massachusetts, one in seven people need help from the government to eat?

Every time you “lift up” (to use an Andrea Campbell phrase) the SNAP debate, Democrats win.

But Jack, we’ll be portrayed as heartless Republicans.

Repeat after me: the shutdown will end as soon as the Democrats vote to re-open the government.

We didn’t need an eleven point plan.

We needed a one point plan and one message to go with it.

Just one message: the shutdown will end as soon as the Democrats vote to re-open the government.

And now that the off year elections are over, the shutdown will probably be over soon too.