Kennedy TORCHES Chuck, Explains Shutdown

Sounds pretty straightforward if you ask me.

The country was just rocking along, minding its own business, and our budget expired midnight Tuesday night. So the Republicans went to the Democrats and said, look, let's just extend the then current budget for seven more weeks while we negotiate a new one. And to our surprise, the Democrats said, no, we will not vote to do that. In fact, we'll shut down government unless you agree to give us $1.5 trillion and we'll tell you how to spend it. Look, I wasn't about to vote for that. My mother didn't raise a fool and if she did it was one of my brothers and every Republican felt the same way. So we said no and that's why

brothers and every Republican felt the same way. So we said no and that's why we're in a shutdown.