THe democrats want us to shoot our own troops in the back over a partial-year budget that in any normal time would have already been in the books before we got here. It’s ALMOST LIKE they purposely failed to pass a budget, just so they could get us sniping at each other.
What other excuse could there be for them NOT to pass a full-year budget in the lame-duck session? It would have been easy to do, they had their filibuster-proof majority in the senate, and it’s not like those who lost the election were worried about losing a second time.
No, I think they left it so they could do exactly what they are doing now, trying to divide and conquer, to get the tea party to turn against the republicans, and vice versa, and maybe to blame the TP for a shutdown (which if we have attacked the republican leadership enough, they might well decide is their best option).
Not ALMOST...that's EXACTLY why they didn't pass it.
So those unaware of what's going on would attack the GOP leadership just as they do on FR.
FR Thread that is relevant to all of the sniping going on here: