And how is that possible? John Fetterman, one of the few common-sense Democrats, which means he is under attack by his own party. John needs to come on over where common sense is the order of the day. So far he has been teetering, but with the path the DSA is on, he should soon have his reason to go right.
The big thing about this is if Fetterman switches parties, will a few others follow? Fetterman is not the only one ready to jump ship, and if more do the same, we won’t have to worry about the DSA in the future.
One thing I learned from this article is that John Kennedy, the man with golden quotes, was a Democrat and switched to the GOP. For some reason, I can’t see Kennedy as a Democrat, not with what he supports as policies, but I’m glad he is on our team. All IMO.
https://www.nysun.com/article/watch-what-i-do-fetterman-says
“Senator John Fetterman has, by our lights, the choicest forward-looking piece of news this week. He’s reached the point, he tells the Hill, that “If our party ever becomes — and just makes it official — the anti-Israel party, that’s when I would leave because that’s been a moral clarity for me.” What with the way things are going in his party, that took no small amount of courage. Our question, though, is “What are you waiting for?”
The senior senator from Pennsylvania, our Matthew Rice reports, is voicing concerns about the increasingly “hostile” posture of his party toward the Jewish state. Mr. Fetterman points to the recent Senate vote against the “annual defense authorization bill which would have established a new U.S.–Israel defense technology initiative,” per Mr. Rice. More than 100 House Democrats, too, voted this week to terminate all American aid to Israel.
Developments like these amount to “a shockingly seismic shift,” in the words of Representative Josh Gottheimer, who laments that support for Israel “is quickly becoming a minority view among congressional Democrats.” Mr. Fetterman asserts that “I can’t understand why the Democratic Party that has these very specific values” would retreat on support for Israel, because the Jewish state “lives” and “projects” the same values, Mr. Rice reports.
“It wasn’t long ago when we believed it was crucial to support allies such as Israel against threats to their safety and peace,” Mr. Fetterman wrote recently in an op-ed for the Washington Post. “In the wake of the war in Gaza, Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah have ramped up their attempts to dismantle our ally.” He stressed the need to stay “committed to fully backing the elimination of these terrorists and their leaders.”
In Mr. Fetterman’s telling, “My views really haven’t changed; what’s really changed is the party.” That echoes of another convert to the GOP from the Democrats, Ronald Reagan. The Gipper famously quipped that “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” A Senate colleague of Mr. Fetterman, John Kennedy of Louisiana, is another relatively recent convert to the Republicans. He left the Democrats in 2007 prior to running for the Senate.
“I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives,” is how Mr. Kennedy described his thinking. “You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party,” he added, but “you can’t anymore.” Subsequent senatorial switches have been made by Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, who became independents while still voting with the Democratic caucus in the upper chamber.”