MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - There's no reason, except politics, to shut down the governemnt.

Politcs played back when the Dems controlled both houses and the presidency, but held off passing a 2011 budget to avoid any political fallout in the November 2010 elections.

Politics plays now as Obama threatens to veto a stop-gap bill to keep the government running while the two houses hammer out a deal.

The reality is, the two houses need to come to a deal. Personally I count it a good thing that no one party has free reign over the collective government. Unfettered power is disasterous. Let them hammer it out.

This is the seperation of the two houses at work by design. The slow-to-change Senate to keep the government from swinging too wildly at voter wims, and the more nimble Representatives to allow the government to be more directly responsive to current voter climate. Our founders were smart to divide the Legislature into these entities, and it's showing its value now. That's biwinning!

Republicans unfettered would decimate some programs too quickly, and Dems would spend us into oblivian. Being forced to work together, some middle-of-the-road solution will arise, which is where most American's live... in the moderate middle.