I'm saying that the Dems are the ones threatening to shut it down again, not the party 'in power'.....and that we've lived through at least four (more if you go back further) shut downs in the last twenty plus years and the country didn't come to a standstill over them. Non essential items that close temporarily are discretionary decisions made by the President (either party), and when it was BO in charge, he chose to close the ones that would hurt the public more than others would have and did it deliberately in order to blame Republicans.....like the National Parks and the memorials in DC, including the WH tours, knowing tourists who had made plans and reservations would be pissed off. He spent more on 'fencing' them off or blocking access than he would have if he had made different choices.