General Discussion

...and I'm not one of the people who supposed republicans who engineered the shutdown they could end themselves cared enough about the federal workers they were hurting to make any compromise.

The compromising begins when it's political fraught for republicans to continue, ie. their own voters rebelling against the premium increases that will occur in the interim before the upcoming vote that was negotiated as part of this.

It's one thing to claim that the shutdown was the beat all. it's quite another to equivocate about it all as if that was the end all beat all to the entire political effort.

It was a step forward for anyone interested in taking up a part of the fight; that is, if they're done fighting the deconstructed political construct that brought us to expecting action on something no one was talking about before the shutdown; something not part of the budget or the shutdown which Dem leaders made the most important thing for supporters and detractors.

Keep up.