The Republicans must be prepared for the same strategery (sic) with the budget that the 'Crats used in regard to the "shut down" ( which was really more of a slow-down) of the non-essential federal government that was executed in the first term of the Eightball Obama.
The 'Crats in local, state and federal government proceeded to shut-down many, many things deliberately when it wasn't necessary, in order to have something to use as a political weapon. They wielded that weapon skillfully and effectively causing the GOP to back down in any further confrontation involving a possible shut-down of the government.
It is appalling how easily so many people were apparently deceived by such an obvious gambit. Virtually all of the most annoying, inconvenient and problematic things shut down were done DELIBERATELY by the 'Crats, even though it was not necessary.
The b*astards got away with it.
McConnell was forced by overwhelmingly negative polling of the general public, to vow in his reelection bid that he would never again cooperate with an effort to shut-down the federal government unless it was the most extreme circumstance.
The 'Crats will try to use the budget as an excuse to mount another such soft-terrorism campaign with the same objective in mind - to willfully inflict great inconvenience, pain, suffering, loss, injury and even death upon the People and to then try to blame it all on their political adversaries.
