We wouldn't have any other choice -- we WOULD be seen as holding the government hostage.
Instead, at least so far, they couldn't get 5 of their own to agree to the bill they authored. Were 10 other Democrats besides the five that did already supposed to vote for a bad bill when the GOP itself was divided? Are we jellyfish? If it'd been a good bill with far-RW holdouts only, yeah, we probably would have gotten together that 15. But that's not what this was.
We tried to immediately add the language from the 2013 shutdown so it didn't affect the military, and McConnell shot it down.
The fact we still don't have a full budget and have to do continuing funding resolutions is bad enough. They focused so hard on their tax bill that they neglected to figure out a way to pay the bills for the government.
Until they get their caucus together, though, it's insanity to accuse *us* of obstruction. Yeah, it might be scary what actually does get them together, and if a good bill comes through that just libertarians like Rand Paul who hate government entirely vote against, we will probably take it and make it happen.
But listen to the part of Tammy Duckworth's floor speech after her zingers. Most of the proposals are Republican-authored and the Republicans themselves still can't agree. We're the ones Ryan has stongarmed by vigorously using the Hastert Rule. Not them. We're the ones trying to keep our troops from feeling anxiety, and the GOP and Trump are instead trying to weaponize support for already beleaguered troops who just might have to deal with a war this buffoon creates.
Tell us we're being the obstructionist party when they get their own side together.
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