Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) quietly abandoned the dress code for members of the Senate, a move that will allow John Fetterman (D-PA) to continue wearing gym shorts and hoodies in the chamber.
The move was reported by Axios, who revealed that Schumer directed the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms to stop enforcing the informal dress code.
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“Senators are able to choose what they wear on the Senate floor. I will continue to wear a suit,” Schumer told the outlet.
The report notes that Fetterman, “who tends to favor gym shorts and hoodies” over business attire, will now be allowed “to linger on the Senate floor before and after votes.”
Why is this a big deal? Because prior to that, the oafish Senator had been voting from the doorway as a means to avoid wearing a suit and actually walking into the chamber.
BREAKING – YOUR REACTION: Report Just In Reveals Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Has Quietly Directed the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms to No Longer Enforce the Chamber’s Dress Code for its Members. pic.twitter.com/x9atmGZJV6
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 17, 2023
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Schumer Ditches Senate Dress Code
Schumer’s move to drop an already informal dress code in the Senate is yet another sign that Democrats seek to lower and debase themselves and embarrass the nation on a world stage.
Remember when Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) turned congressional inauguration ceremonies into an out-of-control daycare with kids whacking themselves in the head with gavels and dabbing?
Is this the first dab on the House floor?@RashidaTlaib pic.twitter.com/JyqwJWet8l
— jordan (@JordanUhl) January 3, 2019
Cute and all, just maybe some semblance of decorum could be maintained in a sacred institution, no?
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Instead, Senator Schumer (D-NY) has decided that when the Senate isn’t serving as a retirement home for the elderly, they must change the rules for one man whom the New York Times, in a lengthy report back in February, described as having “special needs.”
Dressed for work, and ready to keep representing the citizens of Pennsylvania! 🤨 https://t.co/4SgYY5DZEw
— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) April 17, 2023
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But Fetterman Is So ‘Stylish’
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Amazing, isn’t it, that the Senate dress code has to be altered to allow one man to enter the chamber looking like he just rolled off the futon in his mother’s basement, wiped his Cheeto-stained fingers off on his shirt, and lumbered off to work.
A man, mind you, named to the New York Times list of “Most Stylish People of 2022.”
No, we’re not kidding. The Times put Fetterman on a list of other presumably fashionable individuals and called him “stylish.”
“The senator-elect from Pennsylvania is going to bring Carhartt to the Capitol,” they wrote following his embarrassing election victory in Pennsylvania.
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It’s just a matter of time before Democrats unite by all wearing gym shorts and hoodies in a show of solidarity for their mentally-challenged colleague, isn’t it? You know, like when Pelosi and House Democrats all took a knee wearing kente cloths to show they were down with George Floyd.
#Democrat traditions die hard, it seems… “Fact check: Kente cloths have ties to West African slave trade” https://t.co/mku9cKw1so
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 18, 2020
Some people weren’t all that thrilled with Schumer’s effort to drop the Senate dress code.
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Podcast host Monica Crowley said the move was made “all because John Fetterman is a revolting slob.”
We ran that by our fact-checkers and it turns out that yes, Fetterman is indeed a revolting slob.
“This is a material debasement of a storied institution and an absolute reflection of America’s steep decline,” Crowley wrote on social media.
The Senate will no longer enforce its dress code, all because John Fetterman is a revolting slob.
This is a material debasement of a storied institution
and an absolute reflection of America’s steep decline.
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) September 17, 2023
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Former congressman Justin Amash described the move as “awful.”
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“The Senate chamber isn’t your home, a gym, or an outdoor park,” Amash wrote on X. “If you can’t dress professionally for work on the floor of the Senate of the United States, then do us all a favor and get a different job.”
Awful. The Senate chamber isn’t your home, a gym, or an outdoor park. If you can’t dress professionally for work on the floor of the Senate of the United States, then do us all a favor and get a different job. https://t.co/Yc90RrMbxm
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) September 17, 2023
Hey, maybe. Fetterman wouldn’t be employable at the local McDonald’s dressed like that. But maybe if this whole Senate thing doesn’t work out, he’ll have “dope spokesperson” or “Onlyfans explainer” to fall back on.
Or fashion model.
Or perhaps he can author a self-help book titled “How to Lower Everybody’s Standards All Around You Simply By Being Yourself.”
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This brings to mind, in times past, where the Circus Ringmaster (Schumer) would bring out the Dancing Bear (Fetterman) on a leash and make him perform and obey.
Actually it is the perfect picture of American society.
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“And [to the conservative panelist] with a straight face, you’re going to tell students that America’s so starspangled awesome that we’re the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. Two hundred seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.
And you—sorority girl—yeah—just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about?! Yosemite?!!!
We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the world’s greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn’t belittle it; it didn’t make us feel inferior. We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn’t scare so easy. And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered.
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one—America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.”
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Fetterman-Biden-Harris, epitome of America’s greatness.
So Chuckie Schumer is dismissing the dress code for Fetterman because why? Schumer doesn’t have a set of balls to tell this schmuck Fetterman that he has to dress accordingly as to being in the Senate. So now anyone can come to work wearing their PJ’s or halter tops maybe with Daisy dukes. It’ll look like the freaking WalMart!!! This is so unacceptable. These freaking liberals are making our country look like shit.
Schmuck Fumer (letter salad) he is just trying to hide how bad Fraken Fetterman is.
Just goes to show you how disrespectful our senate has become! Schumer should be removed for this! Letting the disrespectful slob Fetterman dress like a homeless bum in the senate chamber is ridiculous! Where is the decorum in the senate?
What a total disgrace! Schumer is a moron anyway, and the rest follow through. Of course when I ride by kids in the morning, the girls generally look like whores, and the boys gangsters. No longer any decorum in the Senate, and now decorum in our (high) schools. I saw a girl Friday morning walking to school. Her shorts (I’m assuming she was wearing them) were covered by a
sweat shirt. These are the very girls who will cry rape when they are showing their wares.
I guess at 82 I’m too old to expect decent behavior. What a shame.
Oh! Come on people! If you are in Congress, Senate or House of Representatives or even The Peoples House- The White House please be respectful and dress Professionally, You want Respect then Show Respect! Forget Adler & Schiff! We the People Pay your Salaries the same as in the rest of Political people from the White House down! Get it! I do not care who you are dress respectfully please! You all make enough money to buy decent clothes and they do not need to be top of the line but neat and clean always! Thank you, a tax payer on everything I buy!
Senator Fetterman won this one – by causing a stir. Wake up – totally ignoring his actions would have been devastating….
Man talk about sending the wrong message about how Professional you should Dress in the Senate, Congress and House of Representatives even in the Peoples House our White House! I think they all forget we Pay their Salaries and expect all of them to Dress Professionally! Even those in Wheelchairs Dress professionally in whatever building they are in no matter what who they are or where they are in White House is the People’s House still today and they forget that, including Joe Biden for heavens sake, they are only there because they were put there as Temporary Tenants while in Office only!! Maybe we should turnoff the lights so they all get the message that we the people still run all the buildings in Washington D.C. and need all the people to be Professional at all times!
So, when I visit the Capitol how will I determine if I’m addressing a Senator or the Janitor?
No surprise here, can’t wait to see his next get-up
Well thats not the real Fetterman anyways…..