Senate Republicans flocked to the Sunday shows to tell us that they are really sorry the shutdown happened and it didn't have anything to do with them. They'll have no responsibility for the next one, either, they say. Because they are powerless when it comes to making government work, apparently.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine lamented on Face the Nation, "Shutdowns are never good policy, ever. They are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal, no matter how important that goal may seem to be." Uh, huh. What about you, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio? Rubio told CNN that they're not "good leverage" and not good for the party that does them. As if he wasn't smack dab in the middle of the party that did that.
"Nope, not us," they cry, as their party is literally subsumed by Trump. And all while Trump is still threatening to do it all over again in three months if he doesn't get his wall out of the conference negotiations between the House and the Senate.
That, or an emergency declaration, which, boy, they sure will tell him is not the thing to be doing. That's just "a terrible idea," says Rubio. "It doesn't mean that I don't want border security," he said. "I do. I just think that's the wrong way to achieve it." So what are you going to do about it, Senator? About as much as you did last time around: nothing.
