The Shutdown is Dead - Long Live the Shutdown!

So the shutdown is over, and conservative Republicans in the House didn't get what they wanted. What will they do next? Dylan Scott at Talking Points Memo offers some evidence about what to expect.

Polarized politics have become the norm in the United States, and the first government shutdown in 17 years is its most extreme manifestation. But long-time Congress watchers don't see the fever breaking any time soon, even after the debacle of the last few weeks. Rather, as these early responses from the House GOP's right flank indicate, we might instead see conservatives become even more entrenched in their positions when the same drama plays out in early 2014.

"I think we're going to see a drumbeat out there that our spineless leaders caved," Norm Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told TPM. "If we had held on, we would of [sic] defaulted, but it wouldn't have made any difference. Obama would have caved, and we would have gotten what we wanted."