It's their fucking budget.

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2. I agree that we should keep the focus on the budget

...right now, we've effectively slowed it to the point where the American people can see and feel the cuts to their basic needs as they're struggling to make ends meet.

I'm thinking that our Dems have done this just right. Republicans are stalling their own budget thinking Democrats care about making their trains run on time. Of course I sit through more of their content than most folks.

I don't actually believe it's a salient message for a party to point to the majority so much that it makes them look feckless. Someone remarked to me that they thought it was absurd that Democrats were declaring they will do this or that without the actual authority to do anything except object. and I replied that it's actually the essence of political change that politicians aspire to a place beyond where they're stuck in the mud.

Nonethe less, republicans are finding out that they have the most interest as a majority in keeping government running, and that they actually can't do it alone with a government so closely divided between parties; no matter what the idiot that's egging them on to this says.