Gov't Shutdown Politics at Its Worst | National Catholic Reporter

Gov't Shutdown Politics at Its Worst | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The reason the GOP is getting more in this stop-gap is that they could go home on almost all issues and come back with a Democratic Senate.  I would rather not change any part of Dodd-Frank now, although I do favor shifting funding to parties from candidates.  Homeland Security changes won't go through on their own - and won't next year when the optics for Obama making a stand are better - however he won't cancel Christmas.  I hope the Democrats put forth an immigration bill next year. It won't pass, but it will be better than the one that passed the Senate, which made Latino voters believe, and rightly so, that punitive measures were all right with the Dems.  That was also bad optics, worse than the ones in the House.