The Stack: Democrats Play Politics With the Longest Government Shutdown in US History
The federal government shutdown has now stretched to 38 days, making it the longest in U.S. history—and Democrats couldn’t be happier.
They’re convinced this crisis gives them a political advantage, even as real Americans suffer. Todd breaks down the left’s talking points and exposes their strategy through a revealing CNN exchange with Hakeem Jeffries, Jake Tapper, and Dana Bash. Meanwhile, he argues that Republicans must stop letting Democrats weaponize the filibuster and narrowly reform Senate rules to prevent future shutdowns.
Beyond the politics, Todd takes on the bigger issue: why so many Americans have become dependent on the government to survive. This episode is a reality check on power, responsibility, and what real leadership looks like in Washington.
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📝 Transcript: Democrats Play Politics With the Longest Government Shutdown in US History
The Todd Huff Show – November 7, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Friends, I’ve got to be honest. Before this program every day, I record the Todd Talk — and I’m still just a little bit humored by what I just recorded for that.
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Todd Huff: Anyway, it’s a pleasure to be here with you on this Friday, my friends, the last day here before we wrap it up for the week. It is my absolute pleasure to be here.
Todd Huff: I want to talk about what is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. I want to talk about the Democrat narrative for all this, which is getting pushback from the media — which we’ve talked about.
Todd Huff: This leads into conversations about how to end this thing, the filibuster, and all of that. That leads into something James Carville has been out there saying, which I want to get to as well, regarding the 2028 election — his optimism, I guess, regarding that for Democrats, and what that could mean heading into life in America in 2028.
Todd Huff: All these things just highlight how important it is for us to win elections and to govern and legislate as efficiently and as proactively as possible.
Todd Huff:
We are in the midst, as I’ve said before on this program, my friends, of a cold civil war.
Todd Huff: The only way through this is to defeat them — the left — at the ballot box, every time we can. Every time there’s a vote.
Todd Huff: And, of course, there were some leftist victories earlier this week, which we’ve talked about. So that’s where we’re headed today, my friends.
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Todd Huff: All right, I mentioned we’re on — what, today’s November 7. So this is the 7th day of November.
Todd Huff: So, leftist listening, that’s how that works — you’ve got 31 days in October. 31 plus 7 equals 38.
Todd Huff: This is the 38th day of the government shutdown, which started on October 1, midnight in fact — the morning of October 1, now 38 days ago. This is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
Todd Huff: Democrats believe they have a political winner here. Democrats believe that this was part of the reason they had some electoral victories on Tuesday.
Todd Huff: You say to your voters, “The Republicans are trying to destroy our country! They can’t get the government open! What’s going on? They control the House, they control the Senate, they control the Presidency, they control the Supreme Court — we’ve got to stop it!”
Todd Huff: “We can’t even keep government open!”
Todd Huff: And so you’ve got to go out there and vote for some unhinged, radically insane socialist who’s going to give you government-run grocery stores, $30 an hour minimum wage, utopia in the city of New York.
Todd Huff: He says there’s no problem too big for the government to solve, no problem too small for the government not to care about.
Todd Huff: This guy — this guy is just a perfect example of what Karl Marx teaches. I mean, ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.’
Todd Huff: That, of course, being a well-known quote from Karl Marx. And this is how they do it. He speaks very well, people love listening, they cheer for stuff that’s just a rewording of what actually turns into tyranny.
Todd Huff: But again, the masses seem to love it. He’s going to be the mayor of New York City. And they think — the Democrats think — that they have a political winner with the American people.
Todd Huff: And what does that political winner require? Well, my friends — it requires suffering from the American people.
Todd Huff: They want Americans to not get paid. They want Americans to lose access to benefits and all that sort of stuff, which I want to get into.
Todd Huff: There’s more than meets the eye here and I want to talk about some of this. We’ve brought ourselves to this brink.
Todd Huff: But I want to break this down and talk a little bit more about that here in a moment.
Todd Huff: But again, one of the major takeaways for me is that we’re on day number 38.
Todd Huff: Unless you’ve been caught up traveling in an extra long and extra slow TSA security point, or maybe one of your flights has been canceled — you may have seen that the federal government has asked or demanded that airlines nationally reduce their domestic flights to, I believe, the 40 busiest airports in the U.S. — cut those by 10 percent as we navigate further through the government shutdown.
Todd Huff: This has real impact on travel. Unless it’s something like that — or you work for the government, you’re an air traffic controller, something along those lines — you’ve not felt any of this.
Todd Huff: Which, to me, says that we don’t need the government to do the vast majority of what it does.
Todd Huff: That’s one of the lessons I think we should take away from this.
Todd Huff: In fact, if I were to put together a list of the top five lessons to learn from the government shutdown, this would be one of them.
Todd Huff: The average person doesn’t need the government to do — I’m going to pick a percentage here, a little bit for hyperbolic effect — but I’m going to say 90 percent of what it does, none of us need.
Todd Huff: Now, if you’re directly involved, if you work for the government, if you contract with the government, if you’re on government benefits — it’s a different story, and there’s real pain being created.
Todd Huff: And dare I say, created by these folks. Because that’s exactly what is happening — it’s being created by the Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
Todd Huff: They think they’ve got a political victory when you suffer — and that’s what they want.
Todd Huff: Don’t lose sight of that.
Todd Huff: Republicans, yes, have a majority in the House and the Senate and, of course, the White House, as you well know, because the media and the left freak out about this every day.
Todd Huff: They tell us that the end is near and that Trump is a Nazi, Hitler, everything you can possibly imagine that’s bad and wicked and evil.
Todd Huff: And we are just days and hours away — just hanging on by the skin of our teeth, by the very tip-tip-tips of our fingertips, my friends, from falling into the abyss and losing this democracy, as the left would say.
Todd Huff: That’s what they want you to believe.
Todd Huff: But even though we have the majority, we don’t have the supermajority. It requires three-fifths. I’ve told you this — you know this — it requires sixty votes, not a simple majority.
Todd Huff: That means that we have to have at least, at least seven Democrats join the Republicans to end this.
Todd Huff: So the Republicans aren’t responsible. It’s out there, it’s obvious for those who want to follow it.
Todd Huff: In fact, this was a clip — I’ll play this really quickly. This is a clip from, well, got the wrong clip here. How’s that possible?
Todd Huff: I know what happened here. I’m going to keep talking here because I will find it.
Todd Huff: But I have a clip here from election night — post-election, well, election night coverage. Post-election coverage on CNN, I think it was Dana Bash.
Todd Huff: She had Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, on the program, and she was talking with him about the government shutdown.
Todd Huff: And, of course, Hakeem Jeffries does what Hakeem Jeffries always does, and the left always does. They get into this political drama.
Todd Huff: They focus on the narrative more than anything else.
Todd Huff: And to their credit, the folks at CNN are now actually pushing back. This has happened now for some time — they say, “Wait a minute, the problem here is that Democrats are voting against this.”
Todd Huff: And at first they were caught off guard. The Democrats never have questions about this stuff. They never have to answer about this stuff because they’re not pushed back on — but they do now, at least in this instance.
Todd Huff: Jake Tapper, Dana Bash here with Hakeem Jeffries, and I’ll play this for you so you can hear.
Todd Huff: You know, you’ve heard things similar to this already, but this is the narrative that the left wants to push.
Todd Huff: They think they’ve got a political winner.
Todd Huff: Here’s Hakeem Jeffries on with Dana Bash and Jake Tapper on CNN election night coverage earlier this week, continuing to push his ridiculous narrative about the government shutdown being the fault of the Republicans.
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): What is your response to what President Trump had to say there, saying that the reason that Democrats had such a good night is because, A, he wasn’t on the ballot, and, B, the government shutdown?
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): Well, Donald Trump and Republicans shut the government down and refused to reopen it. And Donald Trump has spent the last 35 days — more time on the golf course, more time talking to Hamas, and more time talking to the Chinese Communist Party than to Democrats on Capitol Hill who represent half the country.
Todd Huff: Well, let me say here — the Democrat Party does an awfully good job of carrying the talking points of Hamas, if I can throw that in there, Hakeem.
Todd Huff: But these are lines that they rehearse. Most people think that the job of a politician is to figure these problems out and to vote for things that are in the best interest of the American people.
Todd Huff: Not when Democrats are in charge. Not when political people who are engaged in political theater — not these folks who are interested in pushing an agenda at all costs.
Todd Huff: People who are politically divisive, like Hakeem Jeffries — their main objective is to basically spout lies and lines that they’ve practiced and rehearsed in front of focus groups and so forth.
Todd Huff: And that’s what he’s doing here — spitting out these stupid talking points, thinking he’s sounding brilliant and smart. But it resonates, of course, with a certain element — maybe even the majority of the CNN audience.
Todd Huff: But to their credit, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash kind of pushed back here.
Jake Tapper (Soundbite): You guys are voting no on opening the government, not Republicans. I know you’re asking for specific things, and it’s much more complicated than that.
Jake Tapper (Soundbite): We’ll get to that in one second.
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): Hold on a second, Dana, because let’s be clear about that. The American people clearly understand who’s responsible for shutting down the—
Dana Bash (Soundbite): Yeah, but you said they shut down the government.
Hakeem Jeffries (Soundbite): They did shut down the government. They have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. And Donald Trump has spent the last few days saying to Republicans in the Senate, “You have the power to reopen the government.” They refuse to do it.
Todd Huff: I want to talk about — but pause for a minute. We’ll get into that. Donald Trump has been saying that.
Todd Huff: You know why? This is just remarkable to me.
Todd Huff: They expect you to be stupid.
Todd Huff: He is speaking to people who are either intentionally not aware of what’s going on, or people who have been uneducated, or who have bought into the lies and don’t know what the truth is — because they accept the narrative.
Todd Huff: Donald Trump has been saying that you have the power to change the filibuster. See, that’s the problem — it’s the filibuster.
Todd Huff: The filibuster says you don’t need a specific — well, it’s a simple majority to pass things out of the Senate, I guess technically you still just need a simple majority.
Todd Huff: But you have to have three-fifths of the Senate say that we’ll even vote on an issue.
Todd Huff: And so, of course, I’ve gone through this — I don’t want to go through it again. You can go to previous episodes in the past couple of weeks where we’ve talked about this.
Todd Huff: I just want to hit the high points. The filibuster was designed, in theory, to have more debate about an issue — not to shut down the government so that you can throw a temper tantrum and try to get political points and harm the American people.
Todd Huff: That’s not what it was done for.
Todd Huff: I don’t want to go down that path today — I’ve done that a few times recently on this program.
Todd Huff: Hakeem Jeffries is factually wrong.
Todd Huff: He’s depending upon you — his viewers, the audience at CNN — he’s counting on them being ignorant or stupid or just blinded by political allegiance.
Todd Huff: Yes, the Republicans have a political majority. They don’t have a supermajority.
Todd Huff:
The only way that they can govern with a simple majority is to do something about the filibuster rule.
Todd Huff: I think that Republicans should absolutely change the filibuster rule narrowly.
Todd Huff: This is something else that’s out there happening. We’re being gaslit and lied to.
Todd Huff: No one — well, I’m not calling for the complete abolition of the filibuster.
Todd Huff: I’m calling for changes to the filibuster rule so that this sort of thing — a clean resolution, a clean continuing resolution — cannot be filibustered.
Todd Huff: Now, if there’s anything that’s new in it, if the parliamentarian says this is not a clean CR, then you should be able to filibuster it.
Todd Huff: Keep the filibuster rule, which I think both parties still want to do out of fear as to what the other party will do if they’re in power, what they’ll do to force across the finish line and put into law and so forth.
Todd Huff: You could have a discussion about ending the filibuster even in general, but specifically here I would say that the filibuster should be changed to address this government shutdown.
Todd Huff: This should not be something that the filibuster is used for — it’s being abused.
Todd Huff: And so, if you factor in that bit of information, which Hakeem Jeffries does not want the viewers at CNN to know — it’s absolutely right that Republicans have the majority.
Todd Huff: They have the votes to do this if they change the filibuster.
Todd Huff: Now, the problem is they still don’t have the rules to change the filibuster.
Todd Huff: Because there’s several reasons. Again, I would say the most obvious reason is that if they change the filibuster, then Democrats might change the filibuster even further, preventing it from being used on other types of votes.
Todd Huff: Both Democrats and Republicans have changed the filibuster rule here in the past ten to twelve years or so, starting back, I think, in 2013 when Democrats prevented Republicans from using the filibuster for federal appointments.
Todd Huff: And then in 2017, when Republicans used it to prevent the Senate from filibustering Supreme Court nominations, Supreme Court nominees, and so forth.
Todd Huff: Now we’ve got a situation where the government’s being shut down because, again, to someone on the outside looking in, this is absurd. This is truly absurd.
Todd Huff: You’ve got more than half of the legislature trying to open the government without changing anything, without making any new expenditures in this continuing resolution, without cutting anything — in the continuing resolution, just operating status quo as you did on September 30.
Todd Huff:
You want to continue that on October 1 or now we’re on to November 7, and you can’t reopen the government with the majority.
Todd Huff: That is crazy.
Todd Huff: That is — you talk about an inability, I will say, but I would say to the Republicans that’s your fault. That’s your fault.
Todd Huff: You’ve got to change that rule. That cannot be done. It needs to be narrowly defined.
Todd Huff: We’re not getting rid of the filibuster for everything — for those who are out there saying that’s the choice being considered. Certainly, that can be discussed, but that’s not what this can be done simply by saying: narrowly defining the type of legislation that the filibuster cannot be used for.
Todd Huff: And that would be, I would say, for a clean continuing resolution — no changes to the bill. You should not be able to filibuster that.
Todd Huff: If there’s no political changes or additions to government expenses and so forth, that should be able to go straight through with the simple majority without having to deal with the filibuster, because this is what we deal with.
Todd Huff: This is what we deal with. And we have the political games, we have the real pain caused for average Americans, we have the political consequences of this, right?
Todd Huff: There’s going to be people who get elected because of this that might not have won otherwise. You may have a party in control that would not have been in control if they weren’t allowed to abuse this.
Todd Huff: This is ridiculous.
Todd Huff: This is strategically stupid, in my estimation, to not just fix this immediately. This is — that part is on the Republicans.
Todd Huff: That is on the Republicans. But again, when you have tiny majorities — 53 seats is what they have in the Senate — that’s only a three-seat majority.
Todd Huff: It’s going to be hard to get this done if just a couple of people have reservations, and we know that a lot of these folks are scared of their shadows.
Todd Huff: Some of these folks — I’m telling you — they don’t understand what I just told you. They think that it’s an all-or-nothing sort of thing.
Todd Huff: It would not surprise me one bit if someone sitting in Congress thought that it was either get rid of the filibuster completely or keep it and allow the Democrats to abuse it. That’s just a false choice, my friends.
Todd Huff: More to say about this now. I do want to spend, as we get to the next segment, some time talking about how did we get here as a country.
Todd Huff: How did we get here as a country where the impacts of this shutdown — while it still does not hit a lot of people directly, I’m guessing many of you — it certainly hits some of you, and I don’t mean to throw everybody into one bucket, so to speak, metaphorical bucket here.
Todd Huff: But the question to me comes up as to why did we get to the point where so many Americans are incapable of living their lives without the government?
Todd Huff: I still know many people don’t have that problem. The vast majority don’t, but it’s a growing number who do.
Todd Huff: And listen, I’m not talking about you if you have a job with the federal government.
Todd Huff: I’m talking about people who are connected to the benefits of the federal government.
Todd Huff: How on earth did we get here?
Todd Huff: How on earth do we have so many people who are basically at the mercy of getting checks and benefits from the federal government?
Todd Huff: So that’s what I want to talk about next, friends.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Second segment here on this Friday. I know Fridays are tough because you’re not going to hear this program for the next couple of days, but you can always check out archives.
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Todd Huff: We’re making some improvements there. I think you’ll like them. I think it gives you access to more information and content — and so that’s the plan. That’s what we’re doing.
Todd Huff: All right, so let’s shift gears. We’re not shifting gears a lot — we’ve been talking about what’s happening in the government.
Todd Huff: And I’ve said, I stand by what I’ve said — the vast majority of people, you have to remind them unless they’re traveling or something very specific to where they’ve maybe had to do something involving the federal government and so forth — unless it’s something like that, they have to be reminded that the government is shut down altogether.
Todd Huff: And so that is where most Americans land. However, there are certainly people who depend upon the government — millions of people depend upon the government, my friends, millions and millions of people.
Todd Huff: This is a dependency — I feel this is important to point out — a dependency that has been manufactured and created by the lovers of big government.
Todd Huff: There’s a quote that I want to read you. There’s a couple. Reagan said this — President Reagan said this a couple of different times, a couple of different ways.
Todd Huff: Reagan said this: We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Todd Huff: Man, that is a very important distinction.
Todd Huff: And see, this is where you begin to have the feelers in society separate from the thinkers in society, because the feelers say, “My goodness, you shouldn’t talk about people who need a program like that.”
Todd Huff: “These are people who are in desperate need! We want them to be able to access this program without feeling any sort of guilt or hesitation about accessing it.”
Todd Huff: “That’s what it’s there for.”
Todd Huff: To that I would say fine. I’m not here to say we can’t have larger discussions about these programs.
Todd Huff: This is not meant to be a discussion to say that we need to completely eradicate completely some of these programs today.
Todd Huff: That’s not even the discussion.
Todd Huff: The discussion is, how did we get here?
Todd Huff:
How did we get to the point where forty-two million people look to the government every month and say, “We’re depending upon you for our survival”?
Todd Huff: That is a terrifying number. There are three hundred thirty-some million people — three hundred thirty-five, I think — in this great nation.
Todd Huff: To have forty-two million of them basically say, “We’re depending upon you for our survival,” is just, to me, that’s crazy.
Todd Huff: And that’s just one of the programs. That’s SNAP benefits. That doesn’t take into account some of these other things, right?
Todd Huff: We have a massive problem here — a massive problem here.
Todd Huff:
Now, I’m going to say some things, and I want you to know, I want to say a couple of things.
Todd Huff: Number one: work to those who are in need.
Todd Huff: We are told to take care of the poor and the needy. We’re told to help the widows and the orphans, primarily because these were, a lot of times — it’s easy to get caught up on the specific type of person.
Todd Huff: “I’m just going to help an orphan, I’m just going to help a widow.”
Todd Huff:
The concept really is to take care of people who are in situations where they’re powerless, or that it’s difficult to survive.
Todd Huff: And if you look back historically, throughout the history of the world, you see that a lot of times it was hard.
Todd Huff: It was required that women have a husband — not because they weren’t allowed to work, it was just that society was such that that’s how it was done.
Todd Huff: Yes, there’s often been sexism and all that throughout history — I’m not saying that’s not the case — but some things men needed to do because women couldn’t physically do them, or women had other responsibilities at the home.
Todd Huff: And they had to do all those things themselves — with raising the children, tending the home. You couldn’t do all those things.
Todd Huff: Today, you can, of course, hire housekeepers and nannies and people to help with certain things and sometimes tap into family.
Todd Huff:
But at certain times throughout the history of the world, you didn’t have that luxury.
Todd Huff: Your mother and father-in-law — they didn’t go retire and play golf like we do today, right?
Todd Huff: The standard of living was much, much different in those days. Everybody was surviving.
Todd Huff: And so, they would work together, but everybody was working for themselves. They didn’t have large sums of money where they could just pay other people to produce their food.
Todd Huff: They had to go, oftentimes, plant it themselves, grow it themselves, harvest it themselves on top of everything else.
Todd Huff: I mean, life in this country — life in modern times — is much easier from a physical perspective than it has been throughout much of history.
Todd Huff: And so — pardon me, excuse me, my friends. I’m usually quite good at hitting the mute button, but I missed it there.
Todd Huff: But I would say that this modern dependency — I mean, we are so prosperous in this country to where people that produce have so much excess that they can have it taken by an inefficient government where there’s often waste, fraud, and abuse.
Todd Huff: They can have it taken from them — maybe not like that’s done; nobody likes high taxes — but maybe not be able to do other things, start other businesses, take other vacations, do other things for their families, whatever that they want to do.
Todd Huff: And that’s a problem.
Todd Huff: I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done, but you end up funding people who are paid by the government to do it and have enough on top of that to give out money to large groups of people who aren’t either able to or don’t, in some cases, provide for themselves.
Todd Huff: Now, there’s a verse in the Bible — 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 3, Verse 10 — it says this.
Todd Huff: It says, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
Todd Huff: Now, I bet some people are surprised that that’s in there — not most of you are not. Most of you know the Bible. Most of you know that God isn’t trying to have a bunch of lazy people in his family.
Todd Huff: He wants us to work. He doesn’t want us to work ourselves to death — he wants us to rest. That’s what the Sabbath was about — trust in him and all those sorts of things.
Todd Huff: But we have a role, too.
Todd Huff: We’re God’s workmanship, the Bible says. And so we’re supposed to do some things.
Todd Huff: Adam and Eve were created to tend the garden — they weren’t just created to prop their feet up and just do some sunbathing all day.
Todd Huff: We have a role and a responsibility.
Todd Huff: And if you don’t work, you don’t eat.
Todd Huff: Now notice something here, and this is important. I always like to point this out: it doesn’t say if you can’t work, you don’t eat.
Todd Huff: It says if you don’t work, you don’t eat.
Todd Huff: And so there’s a certain amount of expectation that if you’re able, you should be producing.
Todd Huff: You should be taking care of yourself. You should be taking care of your family.
Todd Huff: And as you have more that you are producing, you should be able to be mindful of those in need.
Todd Huff: That’s the way that things were designed to work.
Todd Huff: Once you create this entitlement mentality, you shoot all of that down.
Todd Huff: You have people who believe that they are literally entitled to having a certain amount given to them by the federal government, and that doesn’t work.
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Todd Huff: All right. So when we get back from the break, a couple of other things I want to get to.
Todd Huff: I want to kind of wrap up this conversation here and share with you what James Carville says is coming in 2028, which I want to share with you in closing.
Todd Huff: We’ll get to that, my friends, in the next segment. You’re listening here to Conservative, Not Bitter Talk. I’m your host, Todd Huff. Back in just a minute.
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Todd Huff: All right, I’m not here today to argue against these government programs — that’s another discussion for another time.
Todd Huff: I will say this: I do believe that these problems, in the vast majority of cases, are best solved by churches and communities — the private sector, nonprofits, churches, other organizations, other methods that can help meet these needs.
Todd Huff: Offering compassion without enabling people, creating a mentality that’s an entitlement mindset — I think that there’s a lot of things that we could do a lot better.
Todd Huff: A lot of better explanations, or I should say, solutions to these problems.
Todd Huff: This shutdown could serve as a wake-up call to show how many people are self-reliant in this country and how many people who are dependent exist in this country.
Todd Huff: And I think it could serve as an eye-opener to churches as well, because again, every problem in society is not up for you to fix.
Todd Huff: Sometimes problems exist because people are doing bad things. But there are people who also have genuine needs as well, and that’s why we should be making sure that we’re doing our part responsibly and wisely, of course.
Todd Huff: But a lot of these things are eye-opening — could be eye-opening to people if they paid attention beyond just arguing about how many people are going to be going hungry.
Todd Huff: How about we say, “Why are we in a situation where this impacts so many people?”
Todd Huff: Why aren’t we doing things that are better, things that we know work?
Todd Huff: Certainly understanding that the number will never go to zero — but should it really be forty-two million?
Todd Huff: Everything in my instincts says absolutely not. But again, perhaps I’m wrong. I don’t think so — but who knows?
Todd Huff: All right. I wanted to shift gears in the very limited time I have available.
Todd Huff: I told you that I think Republicans should do away with the filibuster, specifically for clean continuing resolutions to keep the government open and not to have the filibuster used as a tool to shut down the government.
Todd Huff: I think that the Republicans should absolutely move on that.
Todd Huff: This, to me, is a no-brainer.
Todd Huff: The poor leadership — I don’t know what Thune is doing. This is just, to me, a joke.
Todd Huff: This part — this is the one thing that I would say in this situation is the fault of the Republicans.
Todd Huff: That’s what I — well, I think that that’s the truth. So I hope they do that.
Todd Huff: Now, keep in mind, I’m talking about narrowly redefining what the filibuster can be used for or not used for — not in all instances.
Todd Huff: The filibuster can still be used in the vast majority of situations — just not here, just not for government shutdowns when a clean continuing resolution is introduced on the Senate floor.
Todd Huff: This should be a no-brainer.
Todd Huff: Now, I say all of that to say this — and in the limited time I have available — James Carville has predicted something.
Todd Huff: This is in the Stack of Stuff at the website, so you can read it. I won’t have time to get into all the details, but he says that Democrats will win in 2028.
Todd Huff: And when they win, he says they’re going to pack the Supreme Court.
Todd Huff: They’re going to go from nine justices to thirteen justices, he predicts.
Todd Huff: He says he’s going to bet big money.
Todd Huff: I think part of this strategy is depending upon Democrats being able to do away with the filibuster rule, because you can’t pack the Supreme Court — you’re not going to get away with that if the filibuster prevents it.
Todd Huff: Now, will they change the rules?
Todd Huff: He says they’re going to argue and say, “Democrats — excuse me — the Supreme Court has lost the confidence of the American people.”
Todd Huff: “So in order to combat that, we need to create four more seats.”
Todd Huff: And of course, the purpose here is to put four more liberal justices on there so that they lose — where conservatives would lose, constitutionalists more importantly, would lose — the 6–3 or 5–4 majority that they currently have.
Todd Huff: This is bad in a lot of ways. Bad in a lot of ways.
Todd Huff: But they’re tipping their hand here. They’re showing us what they’re trying to accomplish.
Todd Huff: And I wanted to make sure, A, I put this on your radar because that’s a big deal. That is a humongous deal, number one.
Todd Huff: Number two, it also illustrates just how important these redistricting fights are that we’re having — in my state right now, the state of Indiana. Republicans have to do whatever is legal, ethical, and moral to win elections.
Todd Huff: This is what the left is prepared to do.
Todd Huff: They are telling us who they are. They are telling us their intent.
Todd Huff: And it’s not just that they want to institute ideas with which we have some disagreement — they want to fundamentally change this nation as founded.
Todd Huff: They want to fundamentally do whatever they can to remake this great nation in the image of — dare I say — the likes of Karl Marx and the other socialists out there across the world.
Todd Huff: They’ve never met a government too big. My friends, that’s what they seek to build.
Todd Huff: And we had better wake up and beat this thing back.
Todd Huff: Get victory at the polling booth.
Todd Huff: I’ve got to go. Have a great weekend. SDG.
