Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, the guy known for wearing a hoodie and gym shorts while his colleagues wear suits and for being more or less unable to complete a string of sentences thanks to his stroke, is now claiming that the quality of the average DC lawmaker is so bad it\u2019s \u201cscary.\u201d Pot, meet kettle.<\/p>\n
Fetterman\u2019s comments came on Wednesday night, when he appeared on late night talk show host Stephen Colbert\u2019s painfully unfunny \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d with the supposed comedian asking Sen. Fetterman about the awkwardness of contentious DC relationships and Fetterman commenting on the quality of the average DC politician.<\/p>\n
Colbert drew the response by asking,\u00a0\u201cIs it awkward to be in the Capitol and then run into people that you have put up a devastating meme about \u2014 because you\u2019ve got excellent meme game \u2014 but then you have to see these people in the cafeteria?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Fetterman, in response, said, \u201cYou all need to know that America is not sending their best and brightest to Washington, D.C. Sometimes you literally just can\u2019t believe\u2026 these people are making the decisions that are determining the government here. It\u2019s actually scary<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Fetterman then went on to mock the Senators who still have some sense of propriety and the importance of appearing dignified, as came to the fore with the \u201cFetterman Rule\u201d attempt to get rid of the Senate\u2019s business attire dress code. Parodying and mocking the views of his dress code opponents, Fetterman said, \u201c\u2018oh my God, the world is going to burn because he\u2019s going to wear a hoodie on the floor.’\u201d<\/p>\n The slovenly Senator then went on to say that he thinks the situation in the Ukraine is more important than what he wears, saying,\u00a0\u201cUkraine or shutting down the government, all these issues. I think it\u2019s much more important to see is, what will this man where on the floor of the Senate?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Left out of that discussion was any comment on whether he looks like \u201cthe best and brightest\u201d wearing a hoodie and gym shorts while stumbling through his sentences. But that wasn\u2019t all. He also attacked House Republicans for somehow harming Israel by trying to replace the Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cAs a senator, I am always going to stand on the side of Israel and I\u2019m going to make sure that whatever is needed, military, intelligence or humanitarian, to vote for that and support that as well, too. Right now, they can\u2019t do anything because we don\u2019t have a speaker. This is what I\u2019m talking about.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Continuing, he added,\u00a0\u201cI know the president is committed to making sure that we deliver for Israel. But also Ukraine as well, too. We have a pivotal kind of position to be in that we have to stand with both of these kinds of campaigns, to stand for those kinds of people that are fighting against these kinds of awful kinds of enemies.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Watch Fetterman here:<\/p>\n