Shutdown Quote of the Day

"Let’s be clear what this is about: the refusal of a defeated political party to accept the legitimacy of the democratic process when it didn’t get its way. The focus on Obamacare as a means to delegitimize a twice-elected president is just the latest pretext after previous pretexts failed, from the president’s supposedly fake birth certificate to the “Fast and Furious” scandal to Benghazi and all the other would-be impeachable offenses investigated by the House’s Inspector Clouseau, Representative Darrell Issa of California."  -- Frank Rich, writing in New York Magazine, about the Rethuglican shutdown of the Government.  Bonus points for the Inspector Clouseau link to Rep. Darrell "Grand Theft Auto" Issa.  Heh heh.

BONUS QUOTE:
"Why would House Democrats give away what the Supreme Court and the 2012 electorate didn’t?," [Washington Democratic Rep. Jim] McDermott said. 'You can’t say, OK, you get half of Obamacare—this isn’t a Solomonic decision. So we sit here until they figure out they f*ck*n’ lost.”