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Dana Milbank's column at The Washington Post today

Lost in all this was any real discussion of the topic of the day. And that’s because the lifeboat legislative strategy isn’t a serious solution to the shutdown. But it is a revealing glimpse into how the world would look if Cruz’s conservatives ran it.

is worth pairing with Jennifer Rubin's, Cruz Crumbles

A funny thing happened on the way to the shutdown: The Senate Republicans, from whose midst the defund Obamacare scheme came, is more united than ever, in large part because the ringleaders of the defund gambit were shown to be failures and, worse, inept.

And not to be missed is BOEHNER: OBAMA STUBBORNLY REFUSING TO END CRISIS I CREATED by Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker.

A glimmer of hope?

Because this stuff has to be remembered

This video linked here introduces the terms insurrectionist and neoconfederate, used by Republicans to describe House Republicans.

I already think Pork Barrel BBQ is the best local barbecue, but it goes way up in my esteem for this. Read about other restaurants denying promotions to Congresspeople at EaterDC.

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