When Mitt Romney was roaming the state, trying to convince us that he should be our next United States senator (yeah, like that was a heavy lift) he stressed that his age (I’m not running for president, or maybe even for re-election) and experience (been there, done that) would make it possible for him to be smarter than the average freshman, do deals, count votes, craft ad hoc coalitions with Democrats, stare down Republican leadership and get things done, for crying out loud.
Big parts of the federal government are shut down, going into the third week, impoverishing federal employees, damaging the national economy, endangering air travel, food safety and our precious national parks, because the Oval Office Orangutan won’t sign any more appropriations bills unless one of them includes $5.