After this, I have to imagine that next year every Democratic candidate outside the South starts their campaign asking their Republican opponent to pledge that they’ll never shut down the government or threatening default again.

That always plays into what happens in January of next year.

WIth this behind us, let’s focus on the big question: Who stabbed the GOP in the back and cheated the GOP of the victory that was so rightly theirs?

Nancy Pelosi on GOP shutdown strategy: “I think part of it is they don’t want our president to have the successes our country needs. This is one way of standing in the way of that.”