It's Official-Government Closed

++The Obama Administration has put out directives to the appropriate agencies that the government will close down the first time in 17 years.

++The House Rules Committee fight was something to behold with both sides screaming at each other.

++Rachel Maddow, here in D.C., had an excellent segment on how the GOP since 2010 planned to shut down the government. The saddest part of the segment was the list of accomplishments that passed Congress in the first two years of Obama's presidency. After 2010, when the GOP won the House, zip ,nada, zilch. In fact,she made the excellent point that the whole point of shutting down the government was in fact the whole raison d'être of the GOP. They have literally no plans for governing, nor do they want to, nor do they care.