“Are we now, on FR, all in for the govt? “
Who says we’re all-in or all-out??
Obama’s speech shows the hypocrisy of the Democrats. In 2013 they were completely against a shutdown but today they are all for it.
There’s another thread where FReepers are calling Rand Paul a traitor for voting against the bill that is not a budget.
It is important not to lose sight of the differences between the 2013 shutdown and the 2018 shutdown because the MSM is going to try & obscure them. The 2013 shutdown was a last ditch effort to delay Obamacare which had been forced through Congress unilaterally and against the will of the majority of American.
Similar to 2013 it is again the Democrats trying to subvert the will of the people and impose their demands. There is no DACA amnesty bill ready to pass. The bill they are shutting down the Government over contains nothing they are opposed to. Rather they are trying to use the hardship being imposed on the Military and border security as a club to attack the right for the midterm elections.
POTUS and his cabinet need to find a way to pay those salaries or set up a no interest loan service for the people who will need to work through the shutdown and defang the Democrats.