We can do better than that

Where's sense of crisis in a 17 percent government shutdown?

I asked a Republican source on the Senate Budget Committee for an estimate. This was the answer: "Based on estimates drawn from CBO and OMB data, 83 percent of government operations will continue. This figure assumes that the government pays amounts due on appropriations obligated before the shutdown ($512 billion), spends $225 billion on exempted military and civilian personnel, pays entitlement benefits for those found eligible before the shutdown (about $2 trillion), and pays interest costs when due ($237 billion). This is about 83 percent of projected 2014 spending of $3.6 trillion."

I immediately form the 40% cut in two weeks club, our goal is to get spending down, down, down. I need everyone keep on guard for Republican Chickenism. We are going to need the Hen Patrol.
Then this comes:

It took just four days before the Federal government caved to Congress and admitted that it can't even operate in a partial, "non-essential" shutdown. A few short hours ago Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered 400,000 furloughed Pentagon civilian employees - or about half the total defense employees - back to work. Zero Hedge

Hey, isn't that breaking the law? File suit on these guys.