Democrats Ought to Have Shut Down the Authorities

I have been working onerous getting our NCAA Event forecasts prepared for Choice Sunday. So I might barely been taking note of the drama within the Senate, the place Republicans had been making an attempt to collect votes for a price range decision to avert a authorities shutdown by midnight tonight. The invoice handed the Home on Tuesday primarily alongside occasion strains. Nevertheless, as a result of this course of is topic to a filibuster, it required Democratic votes to move the Senate – particularly, a minimum of eight votes as a result of the Republican Sen. Rand Paul had additionally pledged to vote towards it. In the present day, simply as I used to be scripting this…