Congress still gets paid during a shutdown, but the troops won't...
Obama, Boehner, Reid: the three at the center of the shutdown crisis...
According to Talking Points Memo, " With less than 48 hours to go until the government does shut down, all [Congressional ] members -- and the President -- are still slated to receive their checks. The optics of this are so bad that members are figuring out ways to avoid political stigma for swimming in dough while their constituents suffer."
Those constituents include members of the U.S. armed forces who are now engaged in three separate wars.
What was that about "a government for the people?"
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), left, joined the vast majority of members of Congress Wednesday night, saying elected federal officials should not be paid in the event of a government shutdown.
