So big whoop.

The federal government shutdown that never should have happened is over.

One cheer for the Senate. It only took 44 days for Democrats to do what everyone knew last month they would have to do – cave.

Thank the Lord Senate Republicans didn’t surrender this time because of the liberal media that always blames them and cranks out stories about starving babies and other imaginary or exaggerated victims of a federal shutdown.

Government shutdowns always end eventually. And everyone who’s been hurt always gets compensated for their lost pay or SNAP credits.

But as we’ve said here often, shutdowns would never happen if Congress could get off its butt once in a while and pass its 12 annual appropriation bills when it’s supposed to – which is before the start of the next fiscal year on Oct. 1.

But as we were reminded by the few media people who made that point, the so-called leaders we send to work for us in Washington have passed their annual budgets on time only four times since 1977 and........

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