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thing. A not so good thing is when the president then says, well, you know what, I'll be blamed for the

shutdown. Fine, do it. The reason being, not that Republicans should fear a shutdown. I think that

Republicans have always been far too afraid of a shutdown. I don't like it when Republican politicians

say things like, oh, government shutdown would just be so terrible.

Why? We've had several of them. Has anyone died? Have people been keeling over in the streets?

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