Start passing the budget piece by piece.
First, fund Social Security.
Then Medicare.
Then Department of Defense.
Keep passing individual (not omnibus) spending bills.
Make the Senate vote for or against the stuff Americans expect to get passed (whether we like them or not, is another question.)
But don’t pass a bill for the Department of Health or whatever the Death Panel calls itself these days.
(*credit to Jim Thompson [sic] whose idea this is*)
DEM SEN: ‘War on women!’
Sen. Boxer: Government Shutdown Threat “War On Women”
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Media has Obama’s back...
Halperin: Obama Okay with Shutdown Because Media Has His Back
When asked if President Obama had an incentive to negotiate with the GOP, Halperin explained that, “The White House does not have much incentive. They think the trends are going to go in their direction at the end of the week, or early next week at the latest; because again, the press is largely sympathetic to their arguments on this.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/09/30/msnbc-halperin-media-bias-shutdown
“...Start passing the budget piece by piece.
First, fund Social Security.
Then Medicare.
Then Department of Defense...”
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And then the House bill would go to the senate,
where Reid would hold a vote on cloture, and get it.
Then he would add an amendment to include funding for everything else,
and get his 51 votes to pass the amended bill,
and send it back to the House.
If the House would not accept the amended bill from the senate,
the House would get blamed for not being willing to negotiate,
and therefore shutting down the government.
Just like the senate did with the first continuing resolution,
and now with the second continuing resolution.
The senate mafia can do this over and over again.