Negotiation, National Lampoon-Style

Today's GOP turns every routine item of business into a crisis, every bipartisan effort into a ransom demand.  It's all extortion and hostage-taking.

It's as though they saw the 1973 National Lampoon cover, took it literally and said to themselves, "What a great idea!"


And so today the Shithole Shutdown ended after just 3 days.  An agreement has been reached to fund full government operations for 3 whole weeks -- whoopee!  Happily, it also includes 6 years of funding for the CHIP program.  And Mitch McConnell "promised" to do something soon about the looming zero-hour for the DACA Dreamers, a predicament created solely by the Stable Genius.

A promise from Mitch is worthless.  Trust that fuckin' reptile at your peril.

What do you bet we're right back here again in 3 weeks?