interesting that said the democrats perhaps were rooting for a shutdown. the reasonable fear among the smarter republicans is that president obama and mr. reid want to shut down and show down, if the gop bends, democrats will get more spending and demoralized gop voters. if house republicans resist, mr. obama will blame the prospect of a shutdown on an unpopular congress. mitt romney could be forced into a tough political spot. i got to ask, do we think the democrats want to shut down? there is talk this is not going to happen on capitol hill, harry reid s people and john boehner s folks will put an agreement forward. most likely it won t happen but shutdown talk benefits who? benefits democrats certainly because it plays into the president s narrative, which i personally think is the correct narrative that the president for the last two and a half years, since the republicans took back the house, he s been dealing with a recalcitrant congress. he put forth the american jobs act last