US Shutdown Day 13, It Was a Fools Errand

The effort to negotiate in the House has collapsed with John Boehnor and House Republicans giving it up, and now Senators Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell must put something together.  John McCain provided some color commentary on CBS News.

“I guess we can get lower in the polls,” McCain said. “We’re down to blood relatives and paid staffers now.   “I’m glad that negotiations are going on,” McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” I’m disappointed that twice … we were close to a deal and the Democrats moved the goalposts, in light of the polling data.”
McCain said he was also “disappointed” that Obama “has not played a more active role in this, as Bill Clinton did in ‘95.”
“Maybe we need to get Joe Biden out of the witness protection program,” McCain said, noting the vice president’s lack of visibility in recent weeks and relationships with his former colleagues in the Senate.
McCain said it was time for Democrats to be “magnanimous and get things done.”
“I know what it’s like to be in the majority and in the minority, and it won’t be forgotten,” he added.
McCain called the effort to tie the shutdown to an effort to defund ObamaCare a “fool’s errand.”
“The irony of all this is the rollout is a fiasco,” he added.

Meanwhile the Shutdown grinds on, nobody is saying for how long.