Program Note
I'm holding off (for now) on writing today, so I can instead post a snap reaction after the final part of this Kabuki theater we're witnessing. Yes, I said Kabuki. My bet, at the current moment, is what I've believed all along: Boehner will pass a "clean" continuing resolution at the very last possible second, after allowing the Tea Party to do what they will right up until that last possible second. He's really got no other viable choice. I have been amused at how the media has gone along with "the government's going to shut down!" theme -- virtually every commentator on this past weekend's shows and just about everyone I've heard today (surrounding Obama's just-delivered address in the briefing room) has gone with "the shutdown's going to happen, folks."
But I don't buy it. Call me an incurable optimist, but I think there will indeed be an eleventh (or twelfth, or thirteenth) hour solution. Check back in later tonight, to see what I have to say about either calling it right on the money, or (alternatively) getting it massively wrong. Either way, today's column will not appear until tonight's endgame is clear, so I wanted to warn everyone of this, early on.
-- Chris Weigant
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I predict that Obama and the Democrats won't compromise and the GOP won't blink...
So, it's shutdown city....
Michale
Michale -
Cruz aide just tweeted he thinks Boehner will pass a clean bill after the Senate votes down the latest attempt by the House:
Hearing Boehner will offer clean #CR vote after Reid refuses, once again, 2 compromise. #shutdown #MakeDCListen
I'm just sayin'...
-CW
Michale -
Well, looks like you may be right, but I'd still put a stack of quatloos on the shutdown not lasting more than 48 hours, max.
-CW
Is this what we can expect from the required legislation to raise the debt limit?
Well, all I can say is that it sure is a good thing that the US government shutdown won't last any longer than 48 hours, max.
Unbelievable.
Well, looks like you may be right, but I'd still put a stack of quatloos on the shutdown not lasting more than 48 hours, max.
Depends. The GOP have bent over backwards to compromise with Dems over the shutdown.
But, as I have pointed out many times in the past, Dems only talk compromise when it suits their political agenda, the country be damned.
Of course, the GOP is the same way..
What's yer quatloo wager on who is going to bend??
Dems or GOP??
Michale
Keep in mind that the entire dynamic has changed..
With the initial concept, the shutdown MIGHT have been blamed on the GOP. But, it's apparent that the GOP is willing to compromise and the American people see that the GOP has bent over backwards to do so..
Add to that the fact that the majority of American people don't like obamacare and don't want obamacare..
If obamacare IS the train wreck that it will likely be AND the shut down continues for more than a day or so, this is going to be a PR nightmare for Obama and the Democrats..
Which might have been the GOP plan all along. Have the shutdown going on with a train wreck backdrop..
How can the people NOT blame Democrats??
If that was the plan and it DOES pan out, ya gotta admit. Stroke of genius.. :D
Michale
Liz,
Well, all I can say is that it sure is a good thing that the US government shutdown won't last any longer than 48 hours, max.
Says who? :D
I predict at least thru the weekend..
Michale
my quatloos say it ends on thursday night. if there's one thing we've observed about congress over the years, neither healthcare nor the country's finances matter nearly as much to them as a four day weekend.
JL
my quatloos say it ends on thursday night. if there's one thing we've observed about congress over the years, neither healthcare nor the country's finances matter nearly as much to them as a four day weekend.
Pay up! :D
The way things are on the ground, I predict mid-week next week...
Michale
Pay up! :D
Grrrrrrr What was I thinking!!??
My work week has been so convoluted this week..
I thought today was Friday...
My bust....
Michale