Remember when we had Government? I Miss those Days.

"The shutdown is the ultimate example of the triumph of politics over policy. A group of paleoconservative representatives within the conservative party has come up with the clueless idea that shutting down the government will change the outcome of a law passed years ago. It won't.

Those same paleoconservatives are convinced that they can manipulate message to manufacture a good out of something terrible. They think that Amercians' suffering is unimportant. It's not.

This happens when a splinter group cares only about perception and messaging, in other words, politics. If they cared about reality and law and governance, or policy, this wouldn't happen. Because good policy is good politics and terrible policy is terrible politics.

This is why we can't talk about gun legislation; messaging. This is why we can't decriminalize marijuana; messaging. This is why the federal sentencing guidelines are so harsh; messaging. I'm tired of messaging; messaging battles are the reason why people have started believing that they're not just entitled to their own opinion, they're entitled to their own facts. This is the reason why people believe they're not just entitled to their own opinion, they're entitled to have their opinion respected. This is the reason why people believe they're not just entitled to their own opinion; they're entitled to impose their opinion on others and ignore laws which don't acknowledge their opinion.

Policy is important. It's more important than politics. It's time someone admits that."