Famed American humorist/commentator Will Rogers (1879-1935) is known for claiming , “I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat.” He also said if Democrats agreed with each other, “They’d be Republicans.”

That was long ago. But was timely then and is timely now. Democrats often react like two teams in a rugby scrum. Republicans react more like Radio City Rockettes.

So, here we are. Seven Democratic senators, including Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, and Maine’s Independent Sen. Angus King, defied party leadership and voted with Republicans to end the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown. Hoo-Ray! Right?

The 43-day shutdown included stopping food assistance to the poor, leaving 730,000 federal employees and hundreds of thousands of U.S. military working wi

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