Another moment---another opportunity was lost

It appears that the GOP is content with always ceding ground to the Democrats. The shutdown narrative was that it was the Republican's fault, but we should know better. In one sense, the narrative is correct. That fault, dear Brutus lies with us after all. So all that we are left with is powerless complaints about the Democrats.

What was lacking was our own action. In order to do something about overgrown, out-of-control government, is to DO SOMETHING---not just complain.

The pain was increasing, but what was the response? To compromise--always compromise, meaning to always GIVE UP GROUND. The GOP gave back jobs and paid for no work.

The GOP promised to negotiate something un-negotiable. If the demand was to pay for illegals an ObamaCare subsidy, as the expiring ObamaCare subsidies did just that. After all, that what it was for. The demand wasn't about the regular ObamaCare subsidies--those woudn't have gone away. It was just for illegals that Biden pumped in by the millions. It was put into effect because of the COVID shutdowns as a cover story, which is yet another failure of the GOP--as the shutdowns were another GOP failure story.

As for air-traffic-controllers, they could be offered jobs in a new private business. Just set the damned thing up numbnuts!

For whatever pain the Democrats wanted to exploit, offer something that the private sector could handle. It is little wonder that the GOP has lost NYC. They always cave-in. The latest shutdown was no victory. The best you can say about it is that it wasn't too bad of a defeat. But it was a defeat, just the same. The Dems got away with something that should have hurt them, but it didn't.