If the Democrats are stupid enough to vote for the continuing resolution because they are worried about being blamed for a government shutdown, then they will abdicate what little leverage they have and remove any reason for anyone to ever vote for them again.
The vote wasn't as simple as that. On one side of the coin, you had Dems saying they have to vote NO on cloture, NO on the CR, or they’ll be giving into extortion which won’t stop the ongoing destruction of government.
On the other side of the coin, and what received little attention is that had the government shut down, a shutdown would provide Trump a way to halt legal proceedings by deeming those lawyers non-essential. John Marshall
writes in
Talking Point Memo:
... Dems was the fear that a shutdown would slow down or stop the various court cases against DOGE. Honestly, that sounded so stupid to me that I was skeptical. But this afternoon I heard it from other key directions. I don’t know if it’s the biggest driver but just on the basis of what I heard I get a sense that it’s a major one. That seems so wrongheaded, so lawyer-brained, that when I got the final piece of the puzzle in front of me and realized this was a real thing, it was hard for me to even process.
Many believe the best way forward as things keep things going as they are, is that the courts can save us.
