stanford he's in washington and in dallas george c. republican strategist c.e.o. of annandale capital jol the less than two weeks until the term continuing budget resolution runs out we're going to have another government shutdown do you think. i think it would be you know i hate the term political suicide i think that's a overused term but i do think that that that would approach that level of catastrophe for this white house and this president if he decided to drag us into another government shutdown part of the reason as george talked about before that the president had to do so much repair work at the state of the union last night is because of the damage that's lasting from that first shutdown so i think it's very unlikely that the president would be advised to go back into that kind of a mode now again whether he'll decide to do that on a whim who knows but i know that congressional republicans people like mitch mcconnell people like kevin mccarthy they learned their lesson they were chastened by that entire experience of having government workers missing tw