The Democrats are mad because they think the government doesn’t spend enough money, so they plan to shut down the government if they don’t get their way on the budget. Kimberly Strassel spelled it out for us in the Wall Street Journal:
Democrats have already made the mistake of admitting their ploy. The White House was careful to threaten to veto the coming defense spending bill (which accommodates its higher spending requests) on the grounds that it contains "budget gimmicks." (Since when do Democrats object to "budget gimmicks"?)
It took New York Sen. Chuck Schumer less than a day to blow up that phony excuse. Sitting down with the Washington Post, he explained that Democrats had finished weeks of closed-door meetings in which they developed, in the Post's words, a "White House-backed plan to get Republicans to support more spending for domestic programs by blocking floor consideration of appropriations bills."
This is precisely the GOP strategy of 2013—threatening a shutdown in an attempt to get changes to ObamaCare. That was an unmitigated disaster for Republicans, despite the fact that the party was demanding a change most Americans supported. Mr. Schumer & Co., by contrast, are threatening to shut down the government in the name of more money for the IRS, and in the face of polls that consistently show most Americans think Washington spending is out of control. The GOP won its Senate majority in no small part by promising fiscal responsibility, and it isn't likely to be blamed for following through.
Read the whole thing. The first bill the Democrats plan to obstruct is one providing funding for soldiers and the next one has money for veterans.
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