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The " Schumer Shutdown " is effectively over, just in time for the celebrations attending the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps and Veterans Day. There are some votes still to be taken and messes to clean up at airports and for SNAP recipients. But, the epic failure of this record-setting shutdown of the federal government is carved in political stone for as long as Schumer will be remembered.

Perhaps one or more of the eight Senate Democrats who threw in the proverbial towel Sunday were embarrassed to be honoring the Corps and all veterans even as they refused to do their jobs? We will never know their motives, and believing any Democrat’s public explanation for participation in this fiasco is unwise. (

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