9News and Homeland Security

Prediction: Republicans will not take the issue of funding the Homeland Security Agency to the brink of shutdown.

• They campaigned to end gridlock, not cause it.
• They control Congress and will be blamed for the shutdown, not the President.
• Any incident characterized as terror and they will be vulnerable. Would Republicans do this to the army? Homeland Security is our domestic army.

Brandon Rittiman asked me if Republicans can settle it by Friday: “They could unwind it in about 5 minutes if they wanted to.”