Could you possibly be more pompous? Obviously this is constitutional, or it wouldn’t be happening. So, yay, you’ve observed something we already know.

I definitely agree neither of them are fun, but I did not get them mixed up. The Democrats have used the filibuster extensively to stop Republicans when they had a full majority (both houses and the Presidency), but Republicans refuse to do this. This is what should have been done to stop Obamacare from every becoming…

I wish you were right, but the Democrats used the senates power of filibuster to stop that from happening. It is a tactic the Republicans refuse to use, but should.

The budget is a large document that funds the entire government. If the president refuses to sign it because there is nothing in there for Planned Parenthood, that it seems to me that he is the one who is not following the rules.

“It’s pathetic that the people in Congress use this as a way to get what they want.”

In 2013, the fight was over Obamacare, with the Republican-led House of Representatives (led by Senator Ted Cruz) trying to delay or defund the Affordable Care Act. In the 1995-96 shutdown, the fight was between the Republican-controlled Congress and President Clinton over funding for Medicare, education, the…