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NO.
Listen: The plan is to have a gov't shutdown. The repubs will keep the gov't shut down until Obama meets ALL their demands.
How does this benefit the Repub's you might find yourself asking...
Ok, I'll tell ya..
Obama has the power to make a gov't shutdown ANYTHING he wants it to be ie he can just close only the state parks, if that's all he wants OR he can cut off benefits ie Medicare, social security payments etc..
If chooses to cut off payments, he is the bad guy because everyone knows the shutdown doesn't have to be that way, he's MAKING it that way
Scenario 2 Obama decides to close State Parks and other programs that are not essential to the countries survival.
Either way, the Repubs win because if he chooses scenario 2, gov't gets shrunk and it will keep getting shrunk until he capitulates to the Repubs demands and they get the budget they want
If he goes with the first scenario, he is bad guy in everyones eyes with no chance of re-election and absolutely no credibility left.
So what I'm telling you is that AMERICA is going to have a much smaller gov't no matter what happens.