right. they jumped the shark. it s pretty incredible scene having them call jeff flake a moderate. you know, all they re doing is actually tying boehner s hands and mcconnell s hands. the next three months, there s a whole bunch of government operations debates that are going to happen, whether it s the budget itself, the debt ceiling, the sequestration and the more divided and publicly divided that the republicans look, what does that do? that just enhances the hand the president has in negotiation. they re only hurting the irony here is they re only making boehner s life more difficult not with the base of the party but dealing with the president. around the table we re actually seeing something interesting happen. we re seeing a consolidation of the republican party. when you re a texas senator and you say you re not going to be supporting john cornyn and go
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staff on capitol hill. white house staff. do they get paychecks? like on the budget itself, they can agree. so no one in the house and no one in the senate wants to be seen taking a paycheck while they re not doing their job. so both the house and the senate have passed bills saying they re not going to get paid. the problem is the bills don t agree and some may actually be unconstitutional. so right now you have again, a situation where, no, nobody is supposed to get paid, except that like on the shutdown, which we re not supposed to have, if the two sides can t agree, then we will have a shutdown, and everybody will keep getting paid. and as i recall during the clinton shutdowns, during his administration, he basically declared everybody in the white house to be essential personnel. very few people, from executive in the white house, anyway, who stayed home. absolutely. and it creates sort of interesting social competition among people in the white house and elsewhere. beca
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staff on capitol hill. white house staff. do they get paychecks? like on the budget itself, they can agree. so no one in the house and no one in the senate wants to be seen taking a paycheck while they re not doing their job. so both the house and the senate have passed bills saying they re not going to get paid. the problem is the bills don t agree and some may actually be unconstitutional. so right now you have again, a situation where, no, nobody is supposed to get paid, except that like on the shutdown, which we re not supposed to have, if the two sides can t agree, then we will have a shutdown, and everybody will keep getting paid. and as i recall during the clinton shutdowns, during his administration, he basically declared everybody in the white house to be essential personnel. very few people, from executive in the white house, anyway, who stayed home. absolutely. and it creates sort of interesting social competition among people in the white house and elsewhere. beca
United-states-senate
White-house
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Staff
Paychecks
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Capitol-hill
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Budget-itself
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Shutdown
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senators, congressmen, the staff, there s thousands of staff on capitol hill. white house staff. do they get paychecks? like on the budget itself, they can agree. so no one in the house and no one in the senate wants to be seen taking a paycheck while they re not doing their job. so both the house and the senate have passed bills saying they re not going to get paid. the problem is the bills don t agree and some may actually be unconstitutional. so right now you have again, a situation where, no, nobody is supposed to get paid, except that like on the shutdown, which we re not supposed to have, if the two sides can t agree, then we will have a shutdown, and everybody will keep getting paid. and as i recall during the clinton shutdowns, during his administration, he basically declared everybody in the white house to be essential personnel. very few people, from executive in the white house, anyway, who stayed home. absolutely. and it creates sort of interesting social competit
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