http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/the-facts-a-government-shutdown-wont-hurt-the-mili
Interesting write-up, but there’s nothing there that makes me feel any better about this.
It says military won’t be furloughed. I totally agree with that—we’ll be forced to come in to work for free.
It then says about pay cessation: “if the past is any indication, active duty servicemembers are not likely to miss any paychecks.”
The “if” and “not likely” don’t take into account Barack F’in Obama who clearly hates the military with a passion.
I do wonder, though, if the House will go with the single department spending bills as a counter-move to the inevitably Senate and White House stonewalling to the as-is CR. That could get interesting.