Democrats can’t seem to get out of their own way regarding their effort to try to somehow blame the current three-week government shutdown on Republicans. Their latest effort is a great big fail, and worse, they did it to themselves.

Democrats are taking it on the chin over the Schumer Shutdown — and it shows in the generic-ballot polls. The numbers are sliding, and they know it. Still, they keep parroting the line that Americans somehow blame Donald Trump and the GOP for refusing to pass a “clean” continuing resolution. It’s pure spin, and everyone outside the MSNBC bubble knows it.

Anyone with even a passing grasp of how Congress works understands that Democrats are the ones blocking funding, hiding behind filibusters, and then crying foul when Republicans call them out. Continues…