Another day passes (now only eight to go until darkness), and our Republican Congress — that splendor of splendidly promised splendid governance — doesn't even know with whom it is negotiating a friggin' budget.
GOP congressional leaders wished to deal with President Obama rather than their congressional counterparts — which is to say, Republican congressfolk wished to cut Democratic congressfolk from negotiating a congressional budget — but those counterparts and President Obama have said no. Deal with it — the counterparts, that is.
This has saddened Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who "last week framed the upcoming talks as primarily between GOP leaders and the administration." I can understand his sorrow. But, well, Mitch, you know, you should have asked first.
So now the world's oldest representative democracy stands about a week away from shutting down. And yet talks for averting this economic calamity and national embarrassment have not even begun.
Our Republican Congress: Its last and only selling point is that it can always get entertainingly worse.