"Embrace The Suck"

That was Nancy Pelosi's great line in urging her fellow Democratic Representatives to support the Ryan-Murray budget deal.  They did, and it passed in the House by a huge margin.  Some hard-ass GOP Senators are grumbling, but it'll pass there too.

It's an anti-grand bargain that won't make anybody really happy.  It's major benefit is that it prevents another Republican-driven government shutdown for two years.  But it's an actual small bit of something from the Do-Nothing Congress.  Yippee.

It was most amusing to watch chastened R's John Boehner and Paul Ryan attempt to distance themselves from their party's Tea Bag sugar daddy power brokers -- the Koch brothers, the Heritage Foundation, the Club For Growth, etc.  After dancing to the wing-nut tune for the past three years and leading the charge in the pre-planned shutdown, Boehner and Ryan are now claiming they never wanted to do it that way, that they were lied to and their hand was forced.  Just a couple of misled innocents.

"The day before the government re-opened, they said,  
'Well, we never really thought it would work.'
Are you kidding me??!!"

Despite Boehner's theatrical facial expressions, that's some serious bullshit revisionist history.