to you our audience, i have sat through hours of misery today watching d.c. politicians try to explain the shotdown shambles. what an embarrassment they are. that they pop up on or tv screens blaming each other, keep saying how much they want to avoid a shutdown but give the impression that they're loving the drama and the attention. i'm sick of all of them and their political games. and i know you are too. let's deal with the short term. it's perfectly obvious that this shutdown is engineered by the democrats to pander to their extremist base. why else would they shove the daca issue into the middle of the entire federal spending bill when it's got nothing to do with spending and there's a separate negotiation on immigration that doesn't have to be completed until march. but the real question is why do woe have this endless crisis over the federal budget. that's the long term problem and for that we blame the republicans, just as much as the