Charles Pierce Nails It: 'The Reign Of Morons Is Here'

Charles P. Pierce at Esquire's Politics Blog describes the whole phenomenon of

the shutdown so perfectly that I can only wish I wrote as well as he does. No samples. No excerpts. Go read the whole thing.

(In this Esquire pic, Pierce looks just like an old friend and sometime colleague of mine... except that the old friend is politically on the extreme right, quite beyond redemption the last time I talked with him.)

(H/T Kryten's comment on a thread at Bryan's Why Now?)