Things are pretty much back to normal in Washington, D.C.
In other words, lots of finger pointing and heated rhetoric, but not a lot getting done.
The government is now back up and running shutting down for two weeks, closing national parks and furloughing hundreds of thousands of workers.
D.C. might be back to normal, but the public is still doing a slow boil.
We'll be taking our weekly live-stream Internet broadcast, 'Live From the Newsroom,' on the road tonight to speak to a political science class of Widener professor Wes Leckrone to see how young people are reacting to the debacle and the fallout from it.
I'll be joined by columnist Chris Freind, who made no secret in his column today his belief that the government shutdown was a monumental political blunder for the Republican Party.
We'll talk about the shutdown, what caused it, and what political price might be paid by a moderate like U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan, R-7, who initially voted in favor of the move to defund Obamacare, while keeping the government open, which led to the shutdown. After the government closed up shop, Meehan furiously to get the government running again. We wanted Meehan to join us for the show to talk about his stance, but it looks like he's going to be tied up in Washington. I guess that's what happens when you go back to work.
We'll also talk about the tightrope that U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey continues to walk. Months after infuriating the right by his push for broader background checks for gun sales, the Republican is now again being vilified, this time by Democrats, after he was one of just 18 votes in the Senate against the measure that would allow the government to reopen.
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