the pants off the republicans. They don't want to have to explain a shutdown and don't care if donnie sends mean tweets about it.

A government shutdown would include a shuttering of some Pentagon operations? Why would Bone Spurs care one way or the other? He hates the U.S. military and I say U.S. because he's a Russian agent who knows no borders.

Second, congress making a deal is simply kicking the can down the road. Bone Spurs hasn't done squat yet to address the government's ballooning budget deficits. He promised he'd do away with out debt. This is a complete disconnect from what he's said and what he's done.

is the "ayn rand's" going to pay for the 1.5 trillion tax cut that will balloon to over 2 trillion, thinking of adding Social Security under the tree, and Medicare in a big old box, and gutting more of the Dept of Education...................with the warmth of fire, while the "ayn rand's" of the world " are waiting for his/ their lobbying job, and getting there retirement from the taxpayers and saying that there has to be coal for presents to bring down the deficit.............or have you forgotten about this simple fact.................that is waiting for those us that will have to pay for your scam..............................because after all, you have the tax cut 2.0 in the background, it just wasn't shown today.......................but the deficit sure does show it....................

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211128233

Whether the Repugs win or lose both or one of the Congressional Houses,
they will attempt Oligarch tax cut 2.0. The next 2 years even with Dems
in control of one or both houses will see a Repug as President. It will be
3 years before Dems can fully begin reversing these disastrous measures.
The oligarchic push to end democratic governance, drown the government
in a bathtub and transfer more wealth to the 1% from the 99% will continue.

have the best health care and leave social security alone, and whats really ironic, the traitor gets social security because of his boy being under 18 and he is over 70.........................toe help him with his expenses........................

relates to the current state of the US government:

1. trump committed treason in "winning" the White House
2. The GOP either knew about the treason being committed, or participated in it
3. by siding with nazis trump undermines American core values and further causes the destruction of our social, civil ties
4. The GOP is complicit in both the treason that occurred which placed trump illegally in the White House, and the ongoing undermining of core American values leading to the inevitable destruction of American civil society

Therefore: anyone negotiating with the GOP is doing nothing more than enabling treason and the undermining of American society.

My conclusion may not be politically convenient, but it is completely true.

My whole politically conscious life I have seen democrats do nothing but clean up the messes left behind by the right, try to make the decision of the right tolerable, and in the end just get smacked in the mouth for doing so.

When will democrats learn that with the right negotiating is doing nothing but surrendering ground.

It's time the left stop being the whipping boy of the right, stop getting dragged rightward, and start allowing this nation to feel the full effects of the misguided nature of the right. The right DOES NOT HAVE A POINT. IT IS A FAILED IDEOLOGY! Stop treating it like a legitimate power broker.

One that is required by their oath to the constitution. So, both sides are required by oath to keep government functional.

Your point notwithstanding, failing to negotiate something would be an abrogation of their duty.

Unless they did that, I really don't care.