Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 20, 2018The hashtag war over the shutdown doesn’t matter. I suspect Democrats will be the ones to see fallout from this in November. “They shut down services for citizens for illegal aliens” is hard to counter program in a simple way459
Cig Zone@ekstasis·Jan 20, 2018Replying to @vgrDo you remember why the government shut down in, say, 2013?1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 20, 2018Replying to @ekstasisThey were trying to defund Obamacare. Didn’t work.1
Cig Zone@ekstasis·Jan 20, 2018Replying to @vgrIt worked in the sense that Republicans picked up 9 Senate and 14 House seats subsequently in 2014 and most don’t remember why the shutdown happened.11