The fact is that 83% of the government is open and the House passed 13 bills to fund even more of it. The Senate will not even vote on them. The Dems are the ones responsible for the shutdown. They think they are winning politically and hope to break and destroy the GOP. The only way the GOP emerges intact from this struggle is to stand together. It is probably asking too much with the likes of McCain, Graham, Collins, Corker, and Ayotte.
You are right on the money!!! The Pubbies have to stick together now and offer Obama nothing, unless Obama agrees to serious negotiations before getting a debt limit increase or CR from the House of Representatives. Let him go over the cliff next Thursday on his own!!! One of two things will occur. Numbe one, the country will go over the cliff and implode financially...or nothing will happen as Obama covers interest payments on our loans with available funds, of which he has plenty on hand!!! Pubbies....do not be fooled...he well knows....that he can cover his butt on the debt increase....otherwise...he would have cut a deal already!!! Give him nothing....and I mean nothing!!!
In essence, the entire dem argument is over the other 15% of money they have to borrow, some 600 billion per year in a 4 trillion dollar federal budget. The game is to pretend they can't get along without the other 15% which is such a big lie even they have to go to extraordinary lengths to make it stick.
In other words their argument is all BS.