Government Shutdown

[Bazza]

 

[jthomas666]

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Yeah, that's on brand.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

 

[crimsonaudio]

(Thank you, Citizens United).

This has quite literally turned out to be one of the worst decisions ever, imo.

 

[Bamaro]

 

[Bamaro]

Oct 9

This shutdown will be solved when the Rs agree to faithfully negotiate with the Ds if the Ds vote for the CR. That will give the Ds cover they need with their voters. Once the CR is passed, the faithful negotiation will evaporate into the thin air.

Yes, I'm a cynic.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

 

[Bodhisattva]

So, to recap ... My office has to report into work even though we are furloughed. (I hate being important!) Every other office in the building is on vacation. We will all get paid when the government opens up. It sucks that 90% of the past month has involved me going into work with nothing to do. So, I've been taking a book to the office and sitting behind a closed door and burning through my literary inventory. Extremely stupid, but so it goes.

Last Friday, it was finally determined by the PTBs that coming into the office is pointless. My colleagues and I work a 4 x 10 schedule - either Monday -Thursday or (like me) Tuesday - Friday. We will now only have to come to work two days a week. This week I will learn what my two days are. Looking forward to having a lot more real time off. ... Except now it looks like we will be open for business soon after tomorrow's vote. Which is good, but, man, I wanted some real time off back at the house. Life is so unfair!

 

[Its On A Slab]

So, to recap ... My office has to report into work even though we are furloughed. (I hate being important!) Every other office in the building is on vacation. We will all get paid when the government opens up. It sucks that 90% of the past month has involved me going into work with nothing to do. So, I've been taking a book to the office and sitting behind a closed door and burning through my literary inventory. Extremely stupid, but so it goes.

Last Friday, it was finally determined by the PTBs that coming into the office is pointless. My colleagues and I work a 4 x 10 schedule - either Monday -Thursday or (like me) Tuesday - Friday. We will now only have to come to work two days a week. This week I will learn what my two days are. Looking forward to having a lot more real time off. ... Except now it looks like we will be open for business soon after tomorrow's vote. Which is good, but, man, I wanted some real time off back at the house. Life is so unfair!

You're ok, today, right? It's Veteran's Day. The only people that get that day off work for the guv'ment or the banking industry. Well, I worked for 4 years in banking software, and we always got the bank holidays.

 

[Bodhisattva]

You're ok, today, right? It's Veteran's Day. The only people that get that day off work for the guv'ment or the banking industry. Well, I worked for 4 years in banking software, and we always got the bank holidays.

Yes, we're off today. So, it's been a four-day weekend for me (with always having Monday off). But, like an idiot, I told my wife about my good fortune. And she gave me a lot of chores to do. So, don't tell her I'm goofing around on TF. If she asks, I've been productive all day.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Katie Britt getting props from both Republicans and Democrats for helping to end the shutdown.

Katie Britt called ‘rock star’ of negotiations to end shutdown: ‘She was the go-between’

Reports said Britt served as a “key emissary between the various negotiators and the White House.”

www.al.com

 

[4Q Basket Case]

You're ok, today, right? It's Veteran's Day. The only people that get that day off work for the guv'ment or the banking industry. Well, I worked for 4 years in banking software, and we always got the bank holidays.

Banks get the day off because the Federal Reserve gets the day off. Without an operating Fed, you can't clear checks. You also can't send or receive ACH payments. And you can't send or receive bankwires.

Individuals don't write many checks anymore, or send all that many ACH payments. But businesses write lots of checks and send and receive gazillions of ACH transactions. Relative to the banking industry as a whole, wire transaction volume isn't huge. But it tends to be huge dollars.

 

[75thru79]

Katie Britt getting props from both Republicans and Democrats for helping to end the shutdown.

Katie Britt called ‘rock star’ of negotiations to end shutdown: ‘She was the go-between’

Reports said Britt served as a “key emissary between the various negotiators and the White House.”

www.al.com

I don't live in AL any more so she isn't "my" senator but I like what I've seen and heard from her. She is the kind of person I like to see in Washington.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Katie Britt getting props from both Republicans and Democrats for helping to end the shutdown.

Katie Britt called ‘rock star’ of negotiations to end shutdown: ‘She was the go-between’

Reports said Britt served as a “key emissary between the various negotiators and the White House.”

www.al.com

I don't know anything about her, but anyone who can work with both parties to solve problems is both greatly needed and an anomaly in congress nowadays.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

This is a long video, but it has a lot of information. She mostly comes at it from a governance angle and how things are moving behind the scenes. There is a lot more going on than "7 Democrats caved", like some in the media are pushing.

What she says about the ACA @ 32:25 is something so many people conveniently forget. Many provisions in the ACA are from conservative/GOP ideas in the 90s. They did not get to pass it, so they will always hate it.

 

[Its On A Slab]

This is a long video, but it has a lot of information. She mostly comes at it from a governance angle and how things are moving behind the scenes. There is a lot more going on than "7 Democrats caved", like some in the media are pushing.

What she says about the ACA @ 32:25 is something so many people conveniently forget. Many provisions in the ACA are from conservative/GOP ideas in the 90s. They did not get to pass it, so they will always hate it.

It's like my interaction with a family member a few weeks ago. He was rightly ticked off because he wasn't getting paid(he is in the Army Reserve), but he went on a tirade about Democrats being the blame for the shutdown and saying that the ACA was a bad bill and should be repealed.

When I asked him, "Repeal it, but what will you replace it with?" He looked puzzled, sat there for a moment, then got back on his spiel about the Democrats.

My takeaway was: He's in the military and probably didn't stand to have any disruption to his and his family's health insurance. So people who might lose their health insurance if the ACA subsidies expire should just go pound sand,.

 

[Bamaro]

FWIW, none of the Dems who voted to pass the CR are running in 2026.

 

[jthomas666]

FWIW, none of the Dems who voted to pass the CR are running in 2026.

Shocker.

 

[75thru79]

FWIW, none of the Dems who voted to pass the CR are running in 2026.

So they essentially "fell on their sword" for the betterment of the country.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

I don't know anything about her, but anyone who can work with both parties to solve problems is both greatly needed and an anomaly in congress nowadays.

I first heard of Katie Britt when she was Katie Boyd, a student working in Dr. Witt's office. He was turning back flips about her maturity and judgment over 20 years ago.

She seems to have a really good feel for both political expedience and when a battle's worth fighting.
And maybe (maybe!) the ability to reason with Donald Trump.

She and her husband did go to Mar-a-Lago to kiss Trump's ring when she was running against Mo Brooks for the Senate seat (political expedience). But she also talked Trump and his team into giving on the RIF aspect of the bill to end the shutdown -- which appears to have been the key to getting the necessary Democrats on board.

Also, I'd note that one of her best friends in the Senate is John Fetterman.

True, they disagree on a lot of things. But I think each trusts that the other is genuinely working for the best interests of the American people -- as opposed to simply and reflexively trashing the opposing view. Which sets both of them apart from 99% of their respective party members.

At a slightly different level, their relationship reminds me of Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill back in the 80s.

I think she has a chance to be a true statesman (statesperson?).