The Congressional Budget Office issued projections Wednesday for three different scenarios about the length of the government shutdown as it nears a full month.
or they could rewrite the rules using the “nuclear” option or the “constitutional” option and change the cloture rule with their simple majority. but they do not want to do this, because enough of them may not support such a rule re-write, and win or lose, the attempt itself would publicly betray the fiction of a “democrat shutdown” and hang the entire shutdown on their fractious party not being able to get their head and ass wired together. it has gone on too long for them to actually re-open government at this point, so they are betting hard on people actually believing–despite their 9 months of running victory laps about ruling unopposed–they are somehow not able to reopen government without those pesky democrats.
or they could rewrite the rules using the “nuclear” option or the “constitutional” option and change the cloture rule with their simple majority. but they do not want to do this, because enough of them may not support such a rule re-write, and win or lose, the attempt itself would publicly betray the fiction of a “democrat shutdown” and hang the entire shutdown on their fractious party not being able to get their head and ass wired together. it has gone on too long for them to actually re-open government at this point, so they are betting hard on people actually believing–despite their 9 months of running victory laps about ruling unopposed–they are somehow not able to reopen government without those pesky democrats.