Earlier this month, it was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s turn in the dunk tank when he weighed in on the shutdown with his now infamous remark that “Every day gets better for us.” It’s hard to imagine a worse comment.

But now we don’t have to. We have House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, who apparently slipped up by saying the Democrats’ quiet strategy out loud.

“I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have,” she said in a mid-October interview with Chad Pergram of Fox News.

Is Katherine Clark heartless, or did she just have no idea of the implications of what she was saying? What an amazing admission for a leader of a party t

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