The shutdown is, as President Obama says, a "farce."
But this farce is harming the people who work for us -- federal employees -- and it is harming us.
Federal workers have been locked out.
They want to work.
And we need them working.
John Nichols explains how our broken electoral politics led to the shutdown.
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