Reid will have to cave or be accused of not funding our national defense. When Gingrich had the budget showdown with Slick, much of the government was shut down (DoD) for a couple of days, but then the DoD appropriations bill was passed. The shutdown was blamed on Gingrich, even though Slick vetoed the balanced budget.
Let's not forget how the video drive-bys had a long succession of claimed-to-be downtrodden (sometimes black, sometimes female) government workers moaning how they were being beset with tremendous hardship by the eeevil Republicans, even within days of the shutdown, though no gubmint workers had yet missed a single paycheck, and never would miss a paycheck in that or succeeding years.
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