With a government shutdown looming in the Benighted States, one exasperated citizen (ThinkThink2) posted this comment in the Washington Post:

I am confident a large majority of the country would agree to shut down the US House of Representatives.

Indefinitely.

In fact, I am equally confident that they would insist it remain shuttered until global warming is reversed, there is peace in the Mid East and the Republicans fielded a president who didn’t throw the nation into recession upon taking office.