know, in the middle of all this is keeping the government open, avoiding the shutdown and maybe a default if you can t make payments to bond holders and the like, social security recipients and the like. do you think the american people will distinguish whether democrats fault or republicans fault? as a much as the democrats pay attention to polling and focus groups on everything that they do, that s already being shown. about a little under half the country thinks it s both parties faults. and to be honest, republicans have been in on the spending spree throughout this whole journey, even through the time i ve been here. kind of that unholy alliance we roll over for them to give them all the domestic spending because we hold defense sack to prosanta, and i think sanging prosanta, and i think that s the most important thing we do. they know that never in the history of our country have we teed up one and a half times the amount of spending that we normal libor row close to 25% o