[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I may be wrong, but my understanding is when the govt shuts down military personnel will still be paid, social security checks will still go out, medicare and medicaid will still be paid so where's the pressure on the Pubs? It's the Rat base that works for the civilian wing of the govt. If I'm right as the pressure mounts on the Rats the Pubs my be able to leverage a lot of things into the final agreement.

You're right. The fact that the Collaborators DON'T shut the government down EVERY TIME this comes up, tells you that they're cowards.

[wmfights]

You're right. The fact that the Collaborators DON'T shut the government down EVERY TIME this comes up, tells you that they're cowards.

But now they are beginning to see that the Tea Party is not going away. We have a solid group in the House and a beachhead with a few in the Senate. The old guard would ignore them, but we will run primary candidates against them and some of them will lose.

We are beginning to win this fight.