Senate Democrats are so far sticking to a strategy pioneered by Republicans from Newt Gingrich to the height of the tea party: shut down the federal government to impose your will on a president of the opposite party.

Most Democratic senators have used the filibuster to vote down funding bills that would avert a government shutdown. Many of them are liberals who have been on record criticizing both shutdowns and the filibuster rule. 

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