(Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)You don't need me to tell you that Democrats just caved when it comes to ending the government shutdown; even some of their leading senators are admitting it. It’s merely a band-aid for a self-inflicted wound that remains untreated.” Another liberal group, CREDO Action, offered this:To be clear, most Senate Democrats wound up voting to reopen the government. Those members have made appealing to the Democratic base their raison d'etre, and they've quickly wagered that this thing isn't going to fly with that same base. Early polls — before the shutdown actually occurred — showed more Americans blaming Trump and the Republicans than Democrats. When Republicans demanded the defunding of Obamacare back during the 2013 shutdown, the effort was similarly doomed to fail.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 18:53 UTC