BY SUSAN ESTRICH The conventional wisdom is that Republicans were the big losers in the shutdown of the government and the near-default. Certainly, that’s what the polls show. And Sen. Ted Cruz has become the “poster boy” for a failed strategy that finally ended when the grownups in the Senate hammered out the sort of deal that should have been passed by the House weeks ago. The reason it wasn’t passed weeks ago is that […]

Winners And Losers
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