The Strange Shutdown. Peggy Noonan's
Wall Street Journal blog post for today. Her lede:
You know, on one level the government shutdown is the strangest story.
Congressional Republicans didn’t want a shutdown—they wanted to ding
ObamaCare without having one. Democrats did want a shutdown—they
thought it would reveal the Republicans as crazy, irresponsible, at the
mercy of their radical wing. That’s not what they said in public, but
it’s how they thought things would play out.
The entire experience of the Obama administration seems like that: up is down, in is out, bad is good...
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