Bill Clinton actually said...

The Republican plan would raise taxes for over 7 million of our hardest pressed working families.

The cuts they propose would deprive millions of people of health care: poor children, pregnant women, the disabled, seniors in nursing homes...

If the Republican plan becomes law, millions of children would be denied basics they need: health care they now have, schooling they can cou...

So for them to cause a shutdown, denying Americans the services their tax dollars support, as a tactic in the budget debate is wrong.