What’s Really Behind the Shutdown: the GOP’s Immoral Priorities

The tired punditry of shutdown politics isn’t adequate to the task of illustrating Republican villainy. Democrats will have to shout about it.

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The ins and outs of government shutdown politics have come to bore and even offend me, as if all that’s at stake when the government shuts down is which party manages to escape blame. That type of coverage of shutdowns—especially these days, with one of our two parties having become a cowardly and highly regimented personal arm…