Great idea...
Because GOP government shut downs are always so effective at helping us win elections.
While we are on this winning streak, let's force a national abortion ban through Congress, too.
Invincible!
And being nice to the Democrats is so effective at helping us win elections?
People want free stuff. A decisive majority of people want free stuff. But there is no such thing as free stuff. Somebody (else) always pays.
That is why Democrats get elected. They tell people the sweet little lies that they want to hear. That is why Republicans cannot get elected. They don't lie well enough, and they lie about the wrong things.
Somebody else's money always runs out eventually. This can only end in a collapse. That is always the fate of Democracies. It is also the fate of every other government system tried thus far.
Perhaps we can get it right the next time.
In the meantime, I support a real shutdown. Send government workers home without a paycheck and without back pay later. Put some hurt on them. They all vote Democrat anyway so what do we have to lose? I am also in favor of saying goodbye to all of Congress. They have stolen quite enough of our money.