No, they can lose, and they can lose bigger.
This is playing out EXACTLY how the Dems planned it last year. It's why they didn't pass a budget. They knew the GOP would take back the House and then be put in this position of last year's budget battle.
As someone else said, if the GOP had any sense - and that included the usual cast of characters that pretends to be conservative talking heads - they'd declare victory on the 6-month CR and move onto the real fight - NEXT year's budget which starts on October 1.
Instead, we're going to shutdown the government, piss-off the political disinterested (the people who actually elect presidents) and give the Dems their 2012 political strategy on a silver platter.
We're idiots.
That sounds like a good idea, but I’m losing faith that they will achieve any significant cuts in the next budget either. I don’t think they showed much backbone. The dems will ALWAYS play the shutdown game. And to threaten the military is beyond dispicable.
I’m just glad it isn’t for me to decide. I’m too much of a idealogue, and I know it.