She’s a fool and obviously a terrible negotiator. She may be trapped by her party, but I predict this all leads to her downfall as speaker.
I’m thinking the same thing. She is going to cook her own goose just give her some more time.
The feral employees are not an immediate problem. The feral contractors probably are. In another 10 days this shut down is going to start hurting pretty badly for lots of people and will threaten the economy. Everybody involved knows that.
Trump is gambling the howls against pelousy are louder than the ones against him. He is betting the left rank and file, not the hard core base, will want to know why it isn’t reasonable to fund the wall. They see the advantages for them.