If you’re a Democrat, you know you’re in deep trouble if you lose the king of late-night comedy, Jon Stewart, in the middle of a pitched battle with the Republicans.

But that was the brutal reality check delivered by Stewart to Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer last week, with Stewart calling Schumer a “human flat tire” for Schumer’s woefully ineffective messaging over the government shutdown.

As the country moved into the fourth week of a government shutdown, it’s clear that both Republicans and Democrats believe they have a winning hand. So, the shutdown looks like it will continue with no “off ramp” in sight.

That’s no laughing matter for either side or the country.

Schumer and his House counterpart, fellow New Yorker Hakeem Jeffries, continue to demand that Republicans agre

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