The Republican position seems to be: “We’re spending too much money, and the spending is so excessive that we may have to shut down the federal government for a while. No, I won’t tell you specifically WHAT spending I want to cut, and the DOLLAR AMOUNT I want to cut it. All I will tell you is that spending IN GENERAL is way too high, so we’re putting government shutdown on the table.”

These Republicans are so self-centered that they are risking harm to thousands of other people in a government shutdown, before they would spend their own precious time and energy figuring out what specific spending cuts they would support.