(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In an appearance Wednesday on CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., acknowledged that American voters were not sending the most intelligent or best suited people to represent them in Washington, D.C., RealClear Politics reported.
“Sometimes you literally just can’t believe these people are making the decisions that are determining the government here,” said the cognitively impaired Fetterman, who is known for his inability to speak in public after having suffered a stroke several months before he was elected to office.
“It’s actually scary too,” the senator added.
According to the hoodie-wearing lawmaker, “you all need to know America is not sending their best and brightest to Washington, D.C.”
With the possible exception of President Joe Biden, 81, the 54-year-old Fetterman—who received an allowance from his parents until he was 49—has stood out as the least capable of the lot.
He spent several of his early months as a senator on a psychiatric ward while recovering from depression—fueling concern, at one point, that he might be clinically brain-dead.
Not only have reporters and debate moderators been obliged to make special accommodations due to his mental disabilities, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. even temporarily relaxed longstanding dress-code requirements to allow Fetterman on the chamber floor.
The widely lambasted rule change, which Schumer later reversed, was colloquially called the “Fetterman Rule.”
Nonetheless, it did not appear that Fetterman’s recent wisecrack was intended to be ironic or self-effacing.
Rather, he appeared to be attempting, in his own obtuse way, to snipe at House Republicans for refusing to concede ground on a recent appropriations bill to fund the government.
“You know, before the government almost shut down, it came down to a couple hours,” Fetterman said.
“I was in my office and they finally came over from the House and they were like ‘OK, well, this has to be unanimous in the Senate,'” he continued. “Out of 99 of us, if one single one of us would’ve said no, the whole government would have shut down.”
For this reason, he argued, it was “dangerous” to put “that kind of power” in the hands of a normal person—especially the “very less gifted kinds of people” that he sees in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Aside from his own well-documented gaffes, Fetterman has also brought his crass ways to the Senate floor.
As Republicans contemplated a potential impeachment inquiry into the Biden family, Fetterman called the investigation “a big circle jerk on the fringe Right.”
