What is it going to take to restart the US Government after the shutdown, and what does it all mean?

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DarthVolod said:

StuOhQ said:

I could be wrong but didn't the GOP control the house during Obama's 2nd term?

Democrat president and democrat majority senate, but republicans did control house at the time. Still nearly identical situation ... political grandstanding by opposition party to get their way even if it leads to government shutdown. 

I was just pointing out to him that hypocrisy of putting all the blame on the republicans today when same thing happened 5 years ago. None of it means anything though like I said, US government is on autopilot and functions same even with a "shutdown". 

The comparison is pretty vacuous without context.  For example, isn't it true that the shutdown was mostly engineered in the House, where Republicans were in charge?  If so, calling them the "opposition party" is less accurate.  Another important piece of information is which side is making demands, and what the demands are.  In 2013, wasn't the major thing that Republicans wanted to change the status quo by ending Obamacare?  And just recently, isn't the major thing that Trump wanted to change the status quo by building his wall?  Oddly enough, I'm less confident about the recent one than the older one; I only paid cursory attention to it.