They went home

House lawmakers stayed until 4:41 a.m. Saturday to finish up a spending bill to keep the government open, and sent it over to the Senate — only to be met with an empty chamber. Senators had closed up shop two days before and went home for a 10-day break to honor George Washington's birthday.

“We will do our work, but where is the Senate? They’re on vacation,” said Rep. Denny Rehberg, a Montana Republican and member of the House Appropriations Committee who ran part of the floor debate over cutting spending for the new health care law. “Here we are knocking up against a March 4 deadline and they’re missing the deadline again.”

Washington Times

We get this problem beacuse the channel is skewed, the Senate does not have economies of scale when their disparate representation gives them no common ground. What they have in common is a Constitutional delusion, not strong enough to finsh the work of government. (George Lakoff, it the entropy maximization that we do in our heads)

I am beginning to think the channel coherance will dominate, we get a synchroous default from DC, Illinois and California, an unconscious desire from all parties to fix the problem.