Washington is almost as bad about abusing truisms as farmers and sports announcers.
And right now, the Washington equivalent of the black bands on a woolly bear caterpillar or “defense wins championships” is this old chestnut: “The party in control of Congress gets the blame for a government shutdown.”
It looks like we are about to find out about that.
The deal to fully fund the federal government reached in March expires at the end of the day Tuesday, a...