I listened to one rep say that they have landed in a foreign country and burned their ships and there is no where to go but forward. There will be no turning back as this merely sets the stage for what happens in 6 weeks.
You mean they are prepared to keep the shutdown going for a full 6 weeks or more? I would have to be highly skeptical of that. I think after 1 week there will only be a handful in the House GOP who don’t cave from the pressure from the segment of the public who are wondering what happened to their handouts. And those who don’t cave after one week will be too outnumbered to effectively fight this.