Dick Polman: Senate slacker John Fetterman needs to pack up his hoodies
John Fetterman is acid reflux surging through our body politic.
Surely there must be a cure. But good luck with that.
Hounding him until he quits is theoretically possible, but why would he want to give up the perks of doing nothing on the taxpayer’s dime? Throwing him out in a statewide voter recall would be ideal, but the U.S. Constitution forbids it. That leaves one option – jettisoning his worthless ass in a Senate Democratic primary – but that’s two years away and even then he’d still be around, free to do nothing til his lame-duck gig expires at the dawn of 2029.
The brutal expose in the Wall Street Journal – which describes him blowing off a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia meeting, blowing off a meeting with paralyzed military vets in order to gab on Fox News, and ghosting virtually all his Senate committee hearings – is yet another gut check for the 753,000 Democratic voters who inexplicably bought his phony act and made him their party nominee in 2022 – only to see him behave like a slacker who’d put the “The Dude” to shame.
This purported champion of the little guy reportedly has little interest in his job “beyond cultivating........
