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Wiretap: Explaining the Big Fail; trolling conservatives works

A short guide to Washington dysfunction, because no one reads long anymore, and the long guide would be really, really long.

Wiretap: GOP shutdown as long-planned strategy or tragic blunder

It's Day 7 and Americans are looking for explanations. The Times traces a long anti-Obamacare plot on the right. The Washington Examiner quotes a GOP congressman who says it's all just blundering.

The government shutdown killed ‘elktober’

The gathering, trumpeting, head butting in Rocky Mountain National Park will go on without spectators this year. The same kind of show in Washington is drawing lots of attention.

First-day furlough in Colorado

Yesterday they were running routine maintenance on fighter jets, rebuilding washed-out trails in national parks, processing drilling and mining permits. Not today.

When will it end? Your bet is as good as mine.

Latest Washington game: Get your bets down now on when the madness of the government shutdown ends. It could be a while.

Krugman vs. Kristol on Obamacare: Professor by TKO

Paul Krugman explains to Bill Kristol everything Kristol doesn't know about Obamacare in an exchange on ABC's This Week. Be patient. It could take a while.