In a meeting approved pharmacy And it's also politically dumb for the GOP, which is already suffering from dismal public approval in polls. Opinion surveys show that the GOP is unpopular and that most of the public wants our political leaders to work together to get things done, valuing that over taking uncompromising stands. People like Lee might try to spin a prospective shutdown as the Democrats' choice – "If congressional Democrats want to oppose appropriations bills without additional Obamacare funding, shut down the government, and side with the president and Big Business against the American people, then it's their choice" – but voters will see through that. What this talk does is present, again, the GOP's radical, intransigent side to the public – although that may admittedly be the only side the party has left at this point, talk of a party revamp be damned.