Government shutdown looms, and the worst thing for liberals would be a nice long one

This shouldn't even be possible with Republicans controlling the House and the Senate. But ah, we have the filibuster, which means no one really controls the Senate because you can't pass anything with short of 60 votes unless it complies with the Senate's lunatic budget rules. So with Democrats making idiotic demands and President Trump in no mood to give in to them, we're looking at the possibility of a government shutdown as soon as Friday - since that's when the most recent spending bill funding the government expires. (Say, how about getting back to passing real budgets that fund the government for an entire year like we used to do before Harry Reid found it politically expedient not to starting in 2010?) Every time we get to the brink of one of these things, the two parties start jocking for position in how to most convincingly blame the other, and this time is no exception: