In a moment of extraordinary political division, there is consensus on one subject at least: Senate Democrats are screwed . King may be understating his party’s dilemma. The assumption guiding nearly all coverage of the continuing resolution is that the party would be blamed for a shutdown—which is reasonable, given that Democratic votes will decide whether the government stays open or shuts down for the foreseeable future. It gets worse! Writing in Politico, Rachael Bade argued that shutting