“So the keystone of your strategy is a government shutdown?”
I don’t have a strategy, but the way to stop the current legislation is to prevent the rule from being passed. Then they would have to amend it.
But to answer your question, who in this country would notice at all if the government was “shut down” from December 12th to January 6th?? Most of the government will be either off or working with skeletal staffs anyway, except maybe for the post office, which will function as normal. Checks will still go out, etc. (because God forbid the parasites don’t get paid). The Congress itself is taking off the rest of the year from this Friday to January 6th. So who are we kidding.
“But to answer your question, who in this country would notice at all if the government was “shut down” from December 12th to January 6th??”
Who are you trying to kid? You seriously can’t believe that no one would notice. Everyone with a TV set would be bombarded with videos and reports of hapless government workers unable to buy Christmas presents for the kids or the legions of starving homeless who won’t be receiving their federally funded Christmas dinner.
Would those stories be true? Of course not. But, as Mark Twain said: “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”