Monday’s Morning Joe brought MSNBC viewers a confounding explanation for the ongoing government shutdown by creating a political paradox: Republicans were completely at fault, but Democrats were preventing the shutdown from ending.
NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann laid out the first component of the paradox:
Mike Johnson on this morning with Ali Vitali said the sentence to your point about the clean CR. As soon as you hear anybody say, “We gave a clean CR,” I'm like, okay, “That — You've lost the debate.” […] But he also said — but he also said when Ali made the point you just made, she said, you know, “Republicans run the House, Republicans run the Senate.” Well, he said, “Well, Ali, anybody who studies civics knows that we need 60 votes, which means that we need 60.” I'm like, anybody who studies civics —
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