Obama tried to make every shutdown as painful as possible; here’s how Trump’s team is doing the opposite

Herman Cain

The last thing Obama wanted to do was apply skilled management tactics to minimize the pain for the public. He wanted everyone hurting, freaking out and upset because he knew the media would keep telling people the Republicans caused the shutdown.

. . . "But Obama exploited his shutdowns shamelessly for political purposes. The first thing that would always happen would be barricades and CLOSED signs at popular tourist attractions. Next you’d hear the sordid tales of furloughed workers and spoiled meat that would end up on your grocery shelves because there were no FDA inspectors to intercept it. (That’s now how it really works, but who cares when the narrative is working?)"
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"Trump has done exactly the opposite. He has dispatched his budget people and his legal team to find every legal and administrative way possible to keep things running smoothly. There are limits to what the law allows, and there are limits to the resources available. But everywhere they can minimize the pain, they’re doing it. 

"Is Trump going to get credit for this in the media? Of course not. They’re going to portray the 25 percent shutdown as Armageddon regardless of what the facts really are. They’re going to blame Trump for what’s happening – even though it takes two sides to make a deal or not to make one – and they’re not going to make any distinction between a well-managed shutdown and one exploited baldly for political purposes." . . .