As an illustration of what I was saying below, check out the details on the House GOP’s proposed compromise to avoid a shutdown with a stopgap spending measure:
House Republicans told Senate Democrats on Wednesday that they would agree to a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown next week only if the measure began instituting House-passed cuts on a pro-rated basis. [...] Democratic aides said the short-term proposal was likely to be deemed unacceptable since it simply reflected a staggered version of the $61 billion in cuts approved by the House on Saturday in a proposal Senate Democrats already oppose.
They’re literally offering nothing.
You see the same spirit in the various riders that have been attached to the House version of the continuing resolution. The sheer quantity and diversity of them is the tell. For the President to sign such a bill would be, in essence, to cede all legislative authority to the House majority rather than maintaining America’s “status quo stays unless everyone agrees” system. That’s not a concession any White House is going to make, and John Boehner knows it, so a shutdown is inevitable.
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