actually this is well played....the media and the dems will have to tell such a big lie about who caused the shutdown that any last shread of respectablilty they had will be torn away...time to see the man behind the curtain ( not for us freepers, for we have known all along, but for mom and pop armchair that get their info from the msm )...
It is pretty well played, much as I hate to admit it. Obama obviously thinks he can make the case that he expects Congress to produce a budget with no more continuing resolutions, and the lack of paychecks for the troops is the GOPs fault. And without the funding cover for the troops, then any shut-down is going to be short lived. Obviously the Democrats think that they can make the Republicans the bad guys in all this, while the Republicans think they'll be able to hang it on the Democrats. We'll see who is right and which side blinks first.
The GOP kind of got snookered on this. They should have put in the funding for the Pentagon into an earlier resolution. Now they got caught.