No, let's make them a normal event

The U.S. has had four partial shutdowns of the federal government in the last 25 years. Each time we have one, we debate who’s responsible: which party is the formal cause of it, which is being less reasonable in budget negotiations. Maybe it’s time instead to debate doing away with the possibility of shutdowns.

This Bloomberg post gives us a choice. Quit complaining or quit shutting down. I choose the first.