But the whole point of shutdown negotiations is that you can't afford to get the blame for the shutdown. Every party that's been blamed for a shutdown in the last fifteen years has eventually caved. Making extortionate demands like that just doesn't work.
But the whole point of shutdown negotiations is that you can't afford to get the blame for the shutdown. Every party that's been blamed for a shutdown in the last fifteen years has eventually caved. Making extortionate demands like that just doesn't work.
But the whole point of shutdown negotiations is that you can't afford to get the blame for the shutdown. Every party that's been blamed for a shutdown in the last fifteen years has eventually caved. Making extortionate demands like that just doesn't work.
We shouldn't have been negotiating to begin with.
I repeat, even if Republicans were willing to pass a clean CR, the better strategy to me was to shut the government down regardless.