Going to echo the late great Rush Limbaugh, with some attribution shortly. He often ridiculed the RINO's who ALWAYS caved to the legacy media and their influence to whatever the left wanted. My formative years on learning how the sausage was made, thanks to el Rusbo.
RUSH: It’s become an annual, predictable political exercise that is orchestrated by the Democrat Party. And the strength of it, the value of it resides in the fact that the Democrats over the years have convinced more and more people that life cannot be normal with the government shut down. They have convinced people more and more that government is the center of life in America, that government is the heartbeat, that government is the pulse, and without government functioning with proper Democrats in positions of power, the country cannot survive.
There have been a lot of young Democrats who’ve grown up and been taught this, and they believe it. Now they’re adults, and they still believe it. This is why the Republicans never push back against it because they feel they can’t win. So whenever the Democrats in the past have threatened a government shutdown, the Republicans cave. They unilaterally cave and promise us, the people that elected them, that they’ll stick it to the Democrats the next time. “The next time a continuing resolution is due you for renewal, that’s when! We’ll stick it to ’em in March!”
Remember, this is because we don’t even have budgets yet. The government is funded with what’s called a CR, continuing resolution, and in this way we’re able to beat spending caps that are in the law because they apply to a budget. A continuing resolution is just members of the House and Senate agreeing to fund the government for another three months or six months or however long they can agree to do it. But it always expires and needs to be done again.
And when every continuing resolution expires, and one is expiring Friday, here comes, “The government’s gonna shut down! The government’s gonna shut down!” There have been so many government shutdowns in the last 30 years, and you can’t remember one. I mean “you” generically.
Folks, again, the government doesn’t really shut down. Not the way the word implies. It does not close. Entitlement checks or deposits continue. There’s not a welfare recipient out there that will not get his welfare. There’s not a food stamp recipient that will not get his debit card. There’s not a Social Security recipient who will not get their check. There’s not one interruption to any entitlement payment to anybody. They do not lock the government, and it does not cease operations.
The president gets up and goes to work and the House and Senate will get up and go to work. It’s a political construct created by the Democrats, aided and abetted and amplified by the media, to try to demonstrate Republicans hate government and hate all that government does for people. And only government does things for people in the Democrat world. And so when government shuts down, people are hurt. When government shuts down, people are in pain. When government shuts down, people are locked out of resources and benefits.
And that is the lying, stinking political message that the Democrats and the media promulgate, that the Republicans heretofore have felt there was no way they could beat it back. There was no way they could overcome it, so they had to acquiesce to it. That day apparently is over. We shall see.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/01/18/gop-finally-fights-back-on-government-shutdown/
