You know by now, I like my political commentary served up Muddled with Logic and a Dollop of Irony.

So, over the weekend the House (unanimously) voted to pay furloughed government workers for their lost work during the shutdown. Those workers aren’t actually, you know, working.

Even Republicans voted for this. Unanimously.

Here’s an idea, and please bear with me: Instead of paying government workers to not work, why don’t we go ahead and OPEN UP THE GOVERNMENT and then pay them for that?