{"id":58223,"date":"2025-03-13T20:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58223"},"modified":"2025-03-13T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:11:34","slug":"dont-do-it-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58223","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t do it, Democrats!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Democrats in the U.S. Senate apparently are going to commit a form of political suicide if they stick together to oppose a Republican-sponsored continuing budget resolution aimed at keeping the government operating for the next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Demoratic caucus doesn&#8217;t like the cuts in the budget, nor the increases in defense spending. They say they want to &#8220;send a message&#8221; protesting Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to overhaul the government.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had government shutdowns before. They usually have been pitched by Republicans. The longest one occurred during Trump&#8217;s first term in office. It didn&#8217;t go well for the GOP. Why? Because Americans want to depend on their government to provide service when they need it.<\/p>\n<p>A Democratic-led shutdown won&#8217;t go down any more easily than the previous attempts did.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Democrats and Republicans could hammer out a deal to keep the feds&#8217; doors open for business. If the public rebels, Democrats will have no else to blame.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats in the U.S. Senate apparently are going to commit a form of political suicide if they stick together to oppose a Republican-sponsored continuing budget resolution aimed at keeping the government operating for the next month. The Demoratic caucus doesn&#8217;t like the cuts in the budget, nor the increases in defense spending. They say they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t do it, Democrats!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1343,1941,1978],"class_list":["post-58223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-government-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58224,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58223\/revisions\/58224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}