Democrats' Top Ten Priorities - Self-Interest Number One, Everything Else Tied For Second

<![CDATA[Just when you thought Chuck Schumer and Capitol Hill Democrats couldn't screw the politics of the government shutdown up any worse than they already have thus far, along comes reporting from Axios that Democrats, desperately signaling they're ready to end this nonsense, have actually made things worse. On the eve of funding running out to support the 42 million Americans receiving aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and the nearly seven million Americans on the Women, Infant and Children program, or WIC, John Thune once again brought up the clean continuing resolution up for a vote in the Senate. For the 14th time, all but three Democrats voted it down. Yet that same day, Axios' Hans Nichols, citing multiple sources inside the Senate Democratic Conference, indicated that the end of the shutdown was near, perhaps as soon as Wednesday. ]]>