Obama's refusal to pay troops in shut down will backfire

Reuters:

A looming government shutdown would be felt thousands of miles away by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and there could be a high political cost for the lawmakers who let it happen.

Soldiers will not get their paychecks for the duration of the shutdown, leaving their families at home struggling to pay the bills.

Some relatives are already furious.

"Thanks for sending my husband to war and not paying him in return," the wife of one soldier exclaimed on a website, fearing delayed pay in the case of a shutdown.

The sharp reaction among military families underscores the political dangers for Republicans and Democrats if they fail to reach agreement on funding the government for the remainder of fiscal 2011 by midnight on Friday.

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This is a problem for Democrats. The Republicans in the House have already funded the troops for the rest of the year and Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has rounded up 60 votes to continue funding them which is enough to defeat a Reid filibusters, but no enough to overcome an Obama veto. Obama is going to own this mess.
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