Someone needs the moxie to let the Fedguv suffer an utter funds shutdown. No more of this resolution nonsense with its non budget budgeting.
The House passed a budget that would help bring down the deficit; without action by the Senate, the House is left with two choices:
a) pass a continuing resolution
b) let the government shutdown.
The latter option sound nice, but the blame for whatever problems result from a government shutdown are assessed by the media as follows:
i) if it’s a Republican President, any government shutdown fiasco is the fault of the President
ii) if it’s a Republican legislature, any government shutdown fiasco is the fault of the legislature.
A government shutdown threat is a game of chicken, and the media will tilt the playing field so that Obama looks like the savior and the House GOP looks like Scrooge.
Like it or not, the best strategy is push on to November, keep the House, take the Senate, dump Obama, and put grownups in charge.