democrats cut, but i don t think any shutdown would last very long. i think at this point mt. year the democrats have everything to gain and not much to lose by pushing hardt. of course, their time hard. their time with unified control of the government ends at the end of the year, so they re going to push very hard, and republicans, this is the time when republicans don t have to share in the power, they can say no as much as they want, so they might try and say now over no over that weekend of the 16th, but i think government will be funded by the time congress goes home for the year. arthel: and that second part, whoever s saying no for no real good reason, are they going to be kind of scorned politically? oh, right. so this is the golden moment. in the congressional cycle where almost nothing [laughter] nothing silly or nothing obstructionist that the naysayers will do would be held against them because there s almost two more years til next election. it s sort of why they