Eric Zorn: Failure to ask 'then what?' will prove Democrats' undoing in shutdown fight
by Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune
Jan 25, 2018
3 minutes
"Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave on Shutdown."
- President Donald Trump on Twitter Monday night
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No, the Democrats didn't "cave" Monday when they joined a group of moderate senators calling themselves the "Common Sense Coalition" and agreed to halt the brief government shutdown.
Nor did the Democrats "get rolled," as headlines in Politico and elsewhere proclaimed.
The Senate Democrats extracted a minor concession from the Republicans - a six-year extension of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program that serves roughly
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