[JSteff]

“Remember the Government ‘shutdown” in ‘96? Clinton engineered that and played it like a master, and Newt and the Republicans walked right into his ‘Brier Patch’.”

And Rendell pulls it every year in PA and the state Republican congress critters fold. Every year. And the press plays with it to egg them further and earlier into submission. It is pathetic and brings back memories of Clinton. Particularly since many of those state worker are considered “essential” so they will get paid anyway.

What a bunch of silly little girls they seem like. Really pathetic.

[Defiant]

A government shutdown would work if the GOP would stick with it. They have to be willing to endure the bad headlines long enough to make the press understand that it isn't going to work on them, and then the libs will realize that their beloved government is going down the tubes. They would eventually come to the table and deal, but they've never been forced to.

Reagan won one of those showdowns, but the composition of Congress changed, and he couldn't sustain a veto, and was overridden the second time he did it, Republicans joining in.

[Ditto]

And Rendell pulls it every year in PA and the state Republican congress critters fold. Every year.

Yep. I live in PA, and the layoffs are always Cops and closing state parks. Never diversity councilors or PennDOT bureaucrats.

This last time Fast Eddie did that, everyone said 'Ho Hum, we heard that before."

As far as the Republicans in Harrisburg, I don't think they are any damn different than the Democrats. The entire state government is a criminal enterprise, IMHO, and some of them from both side are in or heading to prison. The fact is, it should be a lot more of them in the orange jumpsuits.