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On Friday, Schumer announced his proposal, in which he said that he and his Democrat colleagues would agree to reopen the government if, and only if, the Republicans extended COVID-19-era Obama-care subsidies for another year, and then they could sit down to negotiate with the GOP to deal with healthcare costs. Senator Kennedy responded. "God, please give me patience, because if you give me strength, I'm going to need bail money," Kennedy replied, and the host couldn't help but laugh. "What Senator Schumer is suggesting is that we do the dumbest thing possible that won't work. Stupid should hurt more." "[Schumer's proposal] means we would have to take $35B of taxpayer money and give it directly to health insurance companies without any commitment of lowering premiums." "How's that going to reduce healthcare costs?" he added. "How's that going to reduce premiums? The healthcare companies are going to take $35 billion from the taxpayers and put it into their pocket." "I don't know what Senator Schumer is thinking," Kennedy continued. "I mean, Earth to Chuck… Am I going to vote for this? The short answer is no. The long answer is hell no. I think we are just going to have to get used to the fact that we've been in a shutdown, we're going to be in a shutdown for a while." https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/11/07/stupid-should-hurt-more-sen-kennedys-savage-response-to-schumer-over-latest-shutdown-proposal-n2195982

U.S. Conducts 17th Military Strike on Narco Terrorists in the Caribbean by Dmitri Bolt Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced on Thursday that the United States military has conducted its 17th strike on a suspect narco terrorist vessel traveling on the Caribbean Sea. The strike killed three people, and as usual, no U.S. forces were harmed. The total number of narco terrorists from South America killed in the strikes is now up to 69. As we’ve said before, vessel strikes on narco-terrorists will continue until their the poisoning of the American people stops. Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/11/07/us-conducts-17th-strike-on-narco-terrorists-n2666121

The Orders Next Time By John Hinderaker A rogue Democratic Party judge in Rhode Island, John McConnell, ordered the Trump administration to continue fully funding the food stamp program, even though Congress has not appropriated the money to do so. The order, absurd on its face, is already causing chaos. The administration appealed the order to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which denied the administration’s request for a stay of McConnell’s order pending the appeal. The administration then went to the Supreme Court with an application for an emergency stay. Yesterday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (!) issued an administrative stay of McConnell’s order that will remain in effect until two days after the First Circuit rules on the appeal. Given the partisan composition of that court, the Supreme Court may ultimately need to stop the foolishness initiated by Judge McConnell. What we have seen over the last ten months–hyper-partisan district court judges trying to run the executive branch, by issuing blatantly unconstitutional injunctions, usually “temporary”–is unprecedented in our history. But the Democrats keep making up new rules, and Republicans have no choice but to play by them. Otherwise, Democrats will obtain a permanent, unfair advantage. So, for the remainder of his term, President Trump should appoint federal district court judges who pledge to issue similar temporary injunctions to block Democratic policies, next time we have a Democratic president. Unless the Democrats get a taste of their own medicine, they will shred the Constitution forever. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/the-orders-next-time.php

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Dem Sen. Ed Markey Helpfully Explains Why the Democrats Own the Shutdown The government shutdown continues, and all the while many Democrats are still trying to blame Trump and the Republicans. Naturally they're getting plenty of assistance from the usual suspects in the media: But just occasionally a Democrat will come right out and admit which party is responsible for keeping the shutdown going, and Sen. Ed Markey did that very thing yesterday. Watch: Even Axios is reporting that the Dems are the ones keeping the shutdown going: https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/11/07/dem-sen-ed-markey-helpfully-explains-why-the-democrats-own-the-shutdown-n2421377

Schumer's Shutdown is now in its 38th day, making it the longest government shutdown in history. And from the way Democrats are talking and behaving, they don't plan on opening the government anytime soon. Seems like an odd thing for the party that supposedly cares so much about the little people, don't you think? But when you realize what their end goal really is, it all makes sense because the point is to make Americans suffer. So they'll blame Trump and Republicans since they're 'in charge.' A normal person doesn't necessarily pay attention to politics and news, and Democrats know it. Byron York exposed their entire playbook: Our government is so dysfunctional that it can't even do the one job it's supposed to do. Is it time to vote on term limits yet, or what? https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/11/07/byron-york-exposes-democras-shutdown-playbook-n2421374

Trump Wins on Passports By John Hinderaker Today the Supreme Court issued an order in Trump v. Orr, the case that challenges Trump’s executive order to the effect that a person’s sex as shown on his or her passport will be the sex at birth. This order was challenged in the federal court in Massachusetts, and a Democratic Party judge issued an injunction barring implementation of the order while the case proceeds through the federal courts. This is the Democrats’ familiar strategy: bring a case before a loyal judge who will, without hearing the case on the merits, issue a preliminary injunction preventing the Trump administration from carrying out the policy in question. The “preliminary” injunction will for all practical purposes be permanent, since by the time the case is finally resolved, Trump most likely will be out of office. Through this means, the Democratic Party has effectively tried to seize control of the Executive Branch. But the Supreme Court is on to them, and the administration has consistently gotten these preliminary injunctions dissolved in the Supreme Court. That is what happened here. The unsigned (as is the case with such orders) majority opinion says: This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay factors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application. Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/trump-wins-on-passports.php