Post #56257 by albaby1 on the US Policy board

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If the Republicans didn't want a shutdown they have the power to do it. Since they aren't exercising the power they have. They must want the shutdown.

Or perhaps they don't want the shutdown, but they don't want the precedent of ending the filibuster even more.

We've had this conversation from time to time - the difference between the desired consequences of an action or policy, and the undesired consequences of the action or policy. It's usually wrong to just assume that because a policy decision has a particular negative consequence that the people making the policy decision are doing so because they want that specific negative consequence, rather than wanting some other effect of the policy.

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