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    In shutdown showdown, a crucial question: Who will get the blame?

    Jan 18, 2018 5 minutes

    Let this be a warning to Republicans and Democrats as they ramp up their messaging wars as to who will take the blame for a potential government shutdown Friday at midnight: Things don’t always turn out as predicted.

    Take the two back-to-back shutdowns of 1995-'96. Who would have known that visitors to the National Gallery of Art in Washington would raise such a ruckus? But they had flown in from all over the country and the world for an unprecedented exhibition of works by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Instead of gazing at the “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” they faced shut doors – and a blizzard. The show was out for 19 days.

    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) of Georgia thought Republicans had the upper hand in

    Short-term governance wearing out welcome?Long-term trendParties still at loggerheadsWhy this time feels different

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