Shutdown theater

What a headline from the Boston Globe: "Trump’s shutdown blame game: Why he says Democrats are at fault."

Um...because they are?  The Democrats are trapped into this stupid and futile gesture because their base is at the gate with pitchforks.

Jeffrey Blehar is downright gleeful:

Meanwhile, everybody — and I do mean nearly every serious political commentator I can think of, including Democratic partisans, and most lawmakers grumbling behind the scenes — understands how self-defeatingly stupid it will be for Democrats to shut the government down. There is no “leader” of the “let’s shut down the government” movement on the left, no analogy to the role Cruz played. Instead, this is happening because the base demands it.

That is the rhetoric you are hearing from Democrats behind closed doors: We have to do something to show our voters we’re still fighting. Shorn of any actual ability to fight back – not because they lack legislative power, but because they lack ideological cohesion or mass appeal – they have chosen this in their powerlessness: a tantrum that will only result in their own ox being gored.

I see that both Schumer and Temu Obama will be on the Sunday morning news shows.  It will be interesting to see how they respond to opposition to a continuing resolution to simply keep the government running while the larger budget debate continues in the background.