President Donald Trump continued a Thanksgiving tradition Tuesday, pardoning North Carolina turkeys Gobble and Waddle from a roasted fate.

But there are other turkeys on Capitol Hill who do not deserve to be let off the hook, not by the president, and not by taxpayers.

Chief among them are the Democratic lawmakers who dragged their heels on ending the recent government shutdown as food benefits for millions of SNAP recipients hung in the balance.

As families in need panicked ahead of a food assistance delay or cutoff, Mass. Congresswoman Katherine Clark said “of course there will be families that are going to suffer, but it is one of the few leverage times we have.”

Clark may have said it, but she wasn’t the only DC lawmaker in line with that way of thinking.

Some in Washington even s

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