Quote:The screaming base wants to defund what they view as a death mill, not shut down the government. It would be Obama who would shut down the government merely in order to keep PP funding.


The term "shut down the government" is a huge exaggeration, and you're bigger than that Boudreau. None of the entitlements are stopped and they constitute a large percentage of the [non- interest on the debt] budget. Besides that, any program deemed critical keeps going. Only non-critical programs are shut down.


Last time, Obama and Reid chose to screw over the peons by shutting down national parks, which was the only non-critical program anyone missed. The House passed a bill continuing funding for the parks, but Reid wouldn't allow it to come up for a vote in the Senate.

Perspective is everything. If the goal was actually what they have convinced you it is they could gobafyer legislation banning abortions or fetal harvesting but that is not what they are doing. They are trying to shut the whole thing down without a care for the people losing the services that is the vast majority of what the operation does. The GOP created a fresh wedge issue and you guys bought it. It's as simple as that.

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