Jim DeMint: “I think Americans are going to have to ask themselves are they better off now than they were $4 trillion ago?”

Senator DeMint says let's use the Federal Government as an exemplar for how to reopen.

Certainly, the Federal Government needs to be an example everywhere we can.

Voting by proxy, is this what was intended by the Founders, the Framers of our Constitution?

Absolutely not. We cannot shut the government down, regardless of what happens here.