Do your job or else.

[kentuck]

There is not a whole lot that Congress is required to do. However, one of those things is to come up with a budget. They can't even do that.

Republicans continue to lie with deep sincerity. Their constituents should hold them accountable, but, they won't. Their phone lines should be flooded with calls to do their job.

Their tribe is important to them. They must hang together or those "radical leftists" will walk all over them. Their silence is complicity.

But the sad fact is that Republicans are not working for the people of this country. They are working for a very small number, the billionaires. Everything they do is for the benefit of the billionaires. They would throw millions of Americans off their healthcare at the drop of a pin. They simply do not care.

So long as they can get the Democrats to take half the blame, they are perfectly content.

There is no end in sight for this government shutdown.

[Attilatheblond]

1. If it goes on for long, TSA workers have the power to bring an end to the shutdown

After missing one payday, they should all stay home. One mishap with the wrong person getting onto a plane and air travel grounds to a halt along with all associated capitalist enterprises that rely on air travel. Let GOP legislators walk or hitch a ride on neglected interstate highways.

[NCDem47]

3. Yes, there will be a bridge too far with closure

and the populace and Wall Street will apply pressure.

[Blue renter]

2. Does Congress and the Senate...

get paid during this shutdown?

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Of course they do...

[pdxflyboy]

4. I think I read a good response from a DU'er yesterday:

A few weeks from now, when the FAA air traffic controllers have to go out and drive for LYFT and UBER to bring money into their households, they won’t show up for their ATC shifts. The shutdown will be over on the following morning, with tens of thousands of passengers stranded and an economy that will be grinding to a halt.

[1WorldHope]

5. I got an email from Don Bacon this morning blaming the Dems

for the shut down. He said they promised to discuss the ACA subsidies in the next session or some bs like that. Do these assholes really believe that we are that stupid? I called and left a msg saying that all they do is lie and asked why the Dems would believe that bullshit. I told them the destruction of this country is in their hands. Trump is actually insane at this point, but he was never qualified to be president.

[Boomerproud]

7. I have a flight to and from Florida on Halloween.

Should I be nervous?