But instead, you intentionally used this shutdown as a tool to get your way -- as a ploy to attempt to win a battle you've already lost.
Mr. Rubio is not the only Republican using the shutdown to position himself for a presidential candidacy.
Annie Wheliss, 28, who runs the gift store, described hardline Republicans using the shutdown to deny her access to healthcare – a gesture that temporarily cost her a job – as "personally offensive".
While none of these fundraisers are using the shutdown threat as the basis of a direct appeal to donors, that approach is being used in online appeals to grassroots supporters.
You can also turn off the virtual machine by using the shutdown option in the virtual operating system.
In a bitter episode last spring, the company said The Globe was on track to lose $85 million this year, and used the shutdown threat to wring major wage, benefit and job security concessions from labor unions, while also taking other steps to close the budget gap.
O'Connell's elderly mother, Phyllis Prevost, was not so sure: They're playing their game in Washington, and it has been costing me money I personally think it was silly for the Republicans to use the shutdown as a wedge.
I think this explains a lot about how the Tea Party has handled the growing evidence that it was not, in fact, going to be able to use the shutdown and the debt ceiling to achieve what it failed to achieve in the 2012 election.
Benedict Willis, another trader at the NYSE, said that in fact, companies might start to use the shutdown as a way to justify less than stellar third-quarter results.
More importantly, cyclists used the shutdown as an opportunity to showcase what they had long known -- that biking offers a viable alternative to what is arguably the city's Achilles heel, namely a transportation infrastructure overly-geared to personal cars.
