We had a Netherland Dwarf that was litter trained. She was young. The breeder told us to watch which area of the cage she liked to use, then put a litter box in that spot. Once she was accustomed to the box, she had the run of our screened in porch. She always went back to the cage to use her box.

Sounds great in theory. In practice, we were out of time. There was no way a clean 4 week funding bill would make it to the floor. The R’s deliberately slowed this down to the last minute. We were out of moves. A government shutdown adds to the pain and gives the executive more power.

Agree completely. If this vote had been a week earlier, then by all means fight. At the last minute, don’t do it! Government shutdowns only hurt. It sounds great in theory but the reality is bad.

More people need to read this. Shutting down the government with no time to negotiate is not the issue to hang your hat on. No one has won but shutting down the government.

Shutting down the government will only hurt the Democratic party. It will hurt everyone and every news outlet and every R will point to the D’s. It’s a lose-lose.

You said what everyone is ignoring. The R’s waited until the last minute to get this budget bill done. We were up against a deadline. Do people really think that if the D’s shut it down they would blame anyone but the D’s? Fox would have a feeding frenzy. Fighting a “shut down” bill is lose-lose.