[Ray76]

Remove all leverage.

I would say this is stupidity, but complicity is more accurate.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Republicans were not elected to bow down to President Obama. Pass a short time extension and then send up appropriation bills for him to veto. Try to override the veto and have Democrats and Obama be on record as the party of no. Let his legacy be that he vetoed numerous appropriation bills and shut down the government.