can they do this? the most liberal say they will avoid and shutdown and we are hours away. the government runs out of money at midnight tonight. so if they can t come to an agreement on what they hope, at least the negotiate ors hope, which is a big bipartisan bill through next year they will do a stop-gap to make sure it doesn t shut down. but what is going on here tonight is really bizarre. we saw the white house chief of staff come in to have an hour-long meeting with fellow democrats, trying to convince them we re not talking about republicans, but fellow democrats to go along with this bill that the white house supports. for so many years now, since republicans have been in charge, it has been partisan. and now you have strange bedfell bedfellows. you have republicans and democrats agreeing that what is in this bill, is too many