Gallup Poll says 60% of Americans want a compromise and not a shutdown.
Rasmussen is a republican polling source. They worded their question oddly.
"Would you rather have Congress avoid a government shutdown by authorizing spending at the same levels as last year or would you rather have a partial government shutdown until Democrats and Republicans can agree on what spending to cut?"
No wonder they got those results.
Lets see, first we got a budget from the president that both parties found laughable because it raised spending by two trillion a year. We had two years under Pelosi to come up with a new budget, but
that's like giving a teenage boy the car keys and a bottle of whiskey and saying "be careful!" as he drives away. Correction: Like giving Pelosi an air force G5 and a bar tab, and saying "be responsible."
Then after October passed, the ball was punted to the Republicans who took control of the house in January and came up with an anemic budget bill with only 61 billion in cuts that somehow passed, then it was halted in the senate by the dems who want to cut that in half.
This is complete masturbation. Now Reid's politicizing this whole thing as a debate on abortion.
We have the republicans who will not tolerate any interruption in drilling for oil.
We have the democrats who will not tolerate any interruption in drilling for babies.
We have a president who will not tolerate any interruption in his vacation schedule.
It's BS on all sides, they just represent differing degrees of stupid!