Another shutdown looming

A group of the No. 2 leaders from each chamber — Cornyn, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) — are getting nowhere in their immigration discussions.

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[M]any rank-and-file GOP lawmakers who reluctantly backed the last temporary funding bill, including conservatives and defense hawks, are balking at yet another patch.

With Congress now staring down its fifth short-term spending bill since September, frustration is spreading across the House Republican Conference, particularly as negotiations have stalled over raising stiff budget caps and providing relief to so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows is threatening to withhold votes for another funding bill without more concessions on immigration. The North Carolina Republican told reporters this week that members of his hard-line caucus couldn’t vote for the bill until Speaker Paul Ryan makes good on his promise to push a more conservative immigration plan.

  Politico

They'll all still blame the Democrats for a shutdown. His Highness is already tweeting it out.  And the Democrats are famous for folding in the face of bad publicity.

Several Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee are pushing GOP leaders to attach a full year of defense spending to the next “continuing resolution.” After this month’s politically painful shutdown, they believe Democrats wouldn’t dare vote against it.

They know their opponents very well.

“One of the arguments we heard from Senate Democratic leadership last week against the CR was: ‘It hurts the military.’ OK, it doesn’t if you do the defense appropriations bill,” Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) said in an interview Tuesday.

Yeah, Democrat Claire McCaskill tried to get that done, but Mitch McConnell blocked her, so how do you blame Democrats? Easy, apparently. Just say it's their fault. And if the Democrats are too timid to fire back with the truth of the matter, it's their own fault they come out the bad guys.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.