happens. i think you ve spent since last thursday distracted by house versus whole. the most pointless debate in american history. so i don t think that happens. i think at this point what you should focus on is the spending math. can if republicans can t get any democratic votes, can they hold their own line? they have done it in the path in the short-term funding resolutions. this will be harder because as abby mentioned in her package, the house freedom caucus is not all on board as of yet. they lose a handful of them then the math in the house becomes tighter. alex, this is a big gamut for democrats if they decide this is what they re going to stick their convictions on and allow the government to shut down. so are they allowing to go along with a short-term spending deal if the promise of a daca fix is soon? i think a decisive group of democrats would be willing to go along with a short-term spending fix in exchange for some kind of