Maybe she ought to talk to the president about compromise. He’s a millionaire, and he has everything paid for by the taxpayer including his security. And then she needs to call her colleagues in the US Senate and talk to them about compromise. Our military members cannot afford to go without their paychecks, and it will be on the president’s head if they do.
1.6 million uniformed military personnel exempt from a shutdown per paragraph 4 at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110224/ap_on_re_us/us_what_shutdown