Government Shut Down

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Adak

If and ONLY if they first are given everything they want:

*full funding for Obamacare/ACA

*a debt ceiling high enough to last for the next several months.

That's not negotiating. You don't get everything you want, before you agree to negotiate.

Those aren't even demands, let alone "everything they want". Those are the status quo.

The Democrats haven't attached anything, let alone everything they want, to either bill.

In a theoretical "negotiation", what are the Republicans offering to give, in a give and take? All I'm seeing is take or take slightly less. Republicans are acting as if a functional government or paying our debts is a concession to Democrats.