The quote defines this shutdown: "We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is." http://t.co/Ri8DQu2LH7
— Michael Linden (@MichaelSLinden) October 3, 2013
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?
GOP donors revolt against Republican-led government shutdown http://t.co/Uda0jfL1zo
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 3, 2013