Who Will Carry The Blame For The Shutdown? Maybe No One
If voters punished Republicans over the last shutdown, it was by giving them the Senate majority. Since then, a blinding news cycle had made each crisis only more forgettable than the last.
While a lot of furious negotiation has been going on behind the scenes on Capitol Hill to end a partial government shutdown, to voters and cable news viewers it may look like most of the work in Washington is going into pointing fingers.
As the countdown to shutdown hit zero, an official White House statement called Democrats "obstructionist losers."
Democrats pointed to President Trump's inconsistent statements on immigration to say he's an unreliable negotiating partner.
But even if voters side with one party or the other, neither side may fear any lasting political damage. Republicans' approval ratings tanked after they were blamed for engineering the last government shutdown
