ah, the sadness is reason to laugh. clearly the state of affairs in washington summed up quite well by jake tapper who perhaps put it best with the following tweet i ve been in d.c. for 20 years and i have to say this is a sorry spec cal of d.c. dysfunction. you may have a harsher sbirptation than jake. today s entire megapanel comes from d.c. jonathan capehart, and mark tap scott and jay. it s been suicide for both parties to even get to the point that we are now in. is there a path to political restitution for either party, as you see it right now, dave weigel? well, the debt ceiling debate is not a reason or cause for optimism. this move by mitch mcconnell in the last 24 hours looks a lot like a punt that s more of a