Fortunately for the GOP, the bad news for congressional Republicans led some D.C. Democrats to overplay their hand by allowing the partial shutdown to appear more painful than it need be.

via Bipartisan self-destruction – SFGate.

When we say “a plague on both their houses,” we aren’t practicing false equivalence. We are explaining how culpability for this idiocy rests on both sides of the aisle.

Time to send a message. Fire Congress in 2014.