If you had any doubt...

[Jer]

Doesn't Congress get paid regardless of a shutdown? Isn't this just so that everyone else gets paid?

[BushMasterBoy]

Doesn't Congress get paid regardless of a shutdown? Isn't this just so that everyone else gets paid?

This so there is NOT an excuse for a violent revolt.

[Jer]

This so there is NOT an excuse for a violent revolt.

I get that but isn't the tone of this thread making it seem like they voted to pay THEMSELVES when they wouldn't get paid anyway? Unless I'm missing something wasn't that going to happen anyway and this just got the other people who were NOT getting paid during this stand-still, paid?