Well, here is my status right now:
1. I have brought all my gear into the office. Check my status. Intermittent excepted. Which means in the event of a catastrophe, I get called back to work. with no pay. I (And everyone else) have no idea who long were locked out. My best guess is NLT 10/17/13. Though getting paid for lost time is another matter. Though I can see the political consequences of not doing that. Especially Northern Virginia and the neighboring states around D.C. The good news is that the VA is still operating because they're funded every 2 years rather than annually. Though their IT is affected since they're funded annually.
Why do I say Oct 17? That's when financial Armageddon rears it's head. So...it's a game of chicken right now.
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From a tactical view, asking to gut the President's signature first term achievement wasn't going to happen. If he had gone alone with it, he might as well hand in his resignation as well. Had they followed Boehmer's idea, that is to pick the fight at the debt limit, they would have had better leverage. To my mind, they've lost that leverage. 20-30 Tea Partiers and their allies might have safe districts (until 2020 anyway), but the rest of the RINO's and squishes aren't. Now their have to worry about weathering a Tea Party challenge because they're not "pure" enough (witness the Senate fight in Wyoming) as well as the outrage n their districts. The GOP may have solidified their hold on their districts, but at the cost of not becoming a national party. And I have noted the the GOP keeps lurching to the right every time they lose at the national level.
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Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
1. I have brought all my gear into the office. Check my status. Intermittent excepted. Which means in the event of a catastrophe, I get called back to work. with no pay. I (And everyone else) have no idea who long were locked out. My best guess is NLT 10/17/13. Though getting paid for lost time is another matter. Though I can see the political consequences of not doing that. Especially Northern Virginia and the neighboring states around D.C. The good news is that the VA is still operating because they're funded every 2 years rather than annually. Though their IT is affected since they're funded annually.
Why do I say Oct 17? That's when financial Armageddon rears it's head. So...it's a game of chicken right now.
Quote:
Quote:Within the next few days, if House Republicans don’t accept a SenateLink to article
plan to open the government until mid-November, Reid is highly unlikely
to accept a budget deal if it does not increase the debt ceiling,
Democratic sources said Tuesday. If the House GOP won’t back the
Senate’s stopgap plan by later this week, Democrats are prepared to
argue that it makes little sense to agree to a short-term spending bill
if Congress is forced to resolve another fiscal crisis in just a matter
of days.
From a tactical view, asking to gut the President's signature first term achievement wasn't going to happen. If he had gone alone with it, he might as well hand in his resignation as well. Had they followed Boehmer's idea, that is to pick the fight at the debt limit, they would have had better leverage. To my mind, they've lost that leverage. 20-30 Tea Partiers and their allies might have safe districts (until 2020 anyway), but the rest of the RINO's and squishes aren't. Now their have to worry about weathering a Tea Party challenge because they're not "pure" enough (witness the Senate fight in Wyoming) as well as the outrage n their districts. The GOP may have solidified their hold on their districts, but at the cost of not becoming a national party. And I have noted the the GOP keeps lurching to the right every time they lose at the national level.
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell