Schumer to help Republicans in Senate

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54. we're offering it up now

...but I fail to see how a shut down government gives us more leverage against a WH and republican party that don't actually care that it's closed for business, and will be able to pick and choose the parameters of our government at will.

It's not as if the CR is the end game., but a government vacated and ready to pluck and meddle isn't necessarily reversible or easily defended by our party out of power.

The end game can't be to just let government fester, our own priorities along with it. There's no end game in the shut down, and so much to lose, because we have no actual power to act in any decisive way to positively affect that oiutcome from a minority position.

This CR may not be the right sword to fall on. Expecting republicans to give in at that point is really something, as we're watching them dismantle government without care or concern for anything. Look ar the Dept of Ed, and the way they used a phony emergency to clear the building.