Government Shut Down

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Adak

The fact is, this is the only card that the Republicans can play right now, because the Democrats are in power elsewhere,

There are 3 branches of government. The executive, the legislative, and the judicial.

The Democrats currently control the White House.
The Republicans control the Supreme Court.
The Congress is split 50/50 between the Democrats and Republicans. One party has the House, and one party has the Senate.

You couldn't get more evenly balanced if you tried.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by glatt

There are 3 branches of government. The executive, the legislative, and the judicial.

The Democrats currently control the White House.
The Republicans control the Supreme Court.
The Congress is split 50/50 between the Democrats and Republicans. One party has the House, and one party has the Senate.

You couldn't get more evenly balanced if you tried.

The Supreme Court is more liberal than conservative, and has already given the legal green light to ObamaCare. So right now, the Court is out of the picture.

That leaves us with the two houses of Congress: Senate and House of Representative. There we have a split between the parties, currently.

What I'm saying is that the two parties need to come to a good compromise on their concerns here - instead of just snarling at each other like a pair of mean dogs. Compromise makes great politics. Being obstinate - and by God the Democrats have been absolutely obstinate about cutting anything substantial from the budget - will only get more of the same from the other party.

That's just human nature. You push people, and they'll start to push back. Duh!

In my opinion, the Republicans would leave ObamaCare alone, IF the Democrats would agree to cut the exemptions, and cut some substantial spending NOW (not in the future, we've seen how that plays out haven't we?).

Since the Republicans in the Senate failed to support further action against ObamaCare, I thought the House Republicans would follow suit. But NO, they have not! So it appears VERY LIKELY we will have a shutdown. Some parts of it will start at Midnight, Eastern Daylight Time, unless the parties can reach some kind of a compromise.

Which is totally unlikely, because Reed has already put his foot in his mouth saying he will not compromise. Well, that cuts the chances of a last minute compromise, right down to about nothing, doesn't it?