Democrats Ought to Have Shut Down the Authorities

I have been working exhausting getting our NCAA Event forecasts prepared for Choice Sunday. So I would barely been listening to the drama within the Senate, the place Republicans have been attempting to assemble votes for a price range decision to avert a authorities shutdown by midnight tonight. The invoice handed the Home on Tuesday basically alongside get together strains. Nevertheless, as a result of this course of is topic to a filibuster, it required Democratic votes to cross the Senate – particularly, not less than eight votes as a result of the Republican Sen. Rand Paul had additionally pledged to vote in opposition to it. At present, simply as I used to be scripting this…