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Government's Shutting Down

Will the government is going to shut down? For how long?

  • Yes, for a day

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes, for a few months

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes, for 6 months

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes, for more than 6 months

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    24
If the Senate refuses to pass the budget sent by the House, then it is the Democrats shutting down the government, not the Republicans.



Just a few minutes to shutdown and the Republicans have the ball...
 
The shutdown I don't think will have that big an impact. The debt show down will. Ultimately, I agree with the theory that Boehner should have the shutdown, have public opinion fall on the Republicans to teach them it's not working and then cooperate on a viable plan on the debt ceiling. Default is way more of a problem than shutdown.

Washington (CNN) -- With the government shut down over a bitter partisan battle over the new health care law, the approval rating for Congress is plummeting to historic lows.

And a CNN/ORC International poll released on Monday indicates that it's not just Congress and its top leaders making history for all the wrong reasons. It's also the tea party and the Democratic and Republican parties.

According to the survey, just 10% of Americans say they approve of the job Congress is doing, an all-time low in a CNN poll. And 87% say they disapprove of the job federal lawmakers are doing, higher than it's ever been in CNN polling.

The 10% approval rating in the new CNN survey, which was conducted Friday through Sunday, is down 10 percentage points from CNN's previous survey at the beginning of the month. The 87% disapproval rating is a jump of nine points from the first week in September.

Congress, tea party hit all-time low in CNN polling - CNN.com
 
They pulled this stupid stunt when I was stationed in New Mexico. Government was rumored to shut down, said we would not be paid (nor any other personnel on the government pay roll) until Congress settled on a budget. The entire situation was blown way out of proportion, and then the budget was miraculously settled at the last minute. It was a stupid stunt. The government was never going to shut down, just like it isn't going to shut down now.

It already did. They missed the deadline.
 
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