Another shutdown

eisen1

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Yet another shutdown, and Repubs are gonna get the blame.

Democrats also have the advantage of the bully pulpit as DHS hurtles toward a shutdown. At Stanford University on Friday, Obama said he would sign an executive order that would give DHS more authority to thwart cybersecurity attacks. Democrats almost certainly would try to paint Republicans as weak on cybersecurity — not to mention terrorism — if the agency shuts down.

Democrats also have a simpler message in the argument: Pass a clean funding bill. Compare that to Republicans, who must explain to voters back home that Senate Democrats are at fault even though the GOP won control of both chambers of Congress last fall.

“The process and the machinations of it all — sometimes eyes glaze over, sometimes my own eyes glaze over,” freshman Rep. David Young (R-Iowa), a former longtime Senate staffer, told The Hill. “But the explanation is we’ve done our job in the House and things need to move forward in the Senate.”

Still, Young, who represents a swing district in southwest Iowa, wouldn’t rule out backing a clean bill.

“It may come to that, but let’s see if we can get something out of it first,” he said. “I don’t want to shut down the government, particularly the Department of Homeland Security. Are you serious? These are dangerous times, and we can’t be playing politics with our national security.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/232850-republicans-we-will-get-blamed-for-dhs-shutdown