Setting aside the pejorative statements, your continued insistence that it is Democrats who are alone responsible for the government shutdown, predicated on the claim that they should just concede any issue and pass the ‘clean CR’ that the House of Representatives (which has been held out of session for a month by House Speaker Mike Johnson specifically to prevent any further discussion or possibility of compromise) passed, ignores the fact that it is the responsibility of the entire Senate to come to an agreement with sufficient support to garner the required number of votes. That the GOP majority is not large enough to obtain 60 votes (or even the votes of all Senate Republicans) indicates that they should sit down and discuss a compromise with a caucus of minority party members. That they have steadfastly refused to do so bears them it least equal if not much greater responsibility for this shutdown.
It seems clear that you have a partisan desire to blame this on Democrats for not just rolling over and conceding whatever Republicans (who are in utter thrall of Trump) demand but they clearly see their duty to protect the ability of tens of millions of people to have access to (barely) affordable insurance, and as much as you disdain that just a pointless stalking horse, it is an issue that is critical to those people for whom insurance will be unaffordable and that they would be at risk of not being able to afford needed healthcare. Regardless, if Republicans want the votes, it is their obligation to sit down and negotiate for something even if they won’t bend on this issue, and the utter refusal to do so (and in the case of the House, procedural obstructionism from the highest level) is evidence of their perfidy and indifference, notwithstanding of how this shutdown is being used to try to lay off (not just furlough) federal workers and permanently eliminate critical jobs and funding outside of the aegis of Congress.
Stranger