The fight to nominate Scalia's replacement

[Rajvik]

actually the thing is about the government shutdown is the congress (both houses) pass the budget, and then the President decides to go with it or not, now he is supposed to send them his budget "request" by the begining of February, but they are not beholden to act on it. He can veto the budget but then its him shutting down the government, not the congress, its him being pedantic about not getting what he wants, not the other way around. and quite frankly the people are tired of business as usual, so i think there is a good chance of either of them getting the general election, and if they run together, then they have a damn good chance of winning if they can ever sort out which of them will be president and which will be vice.