Oh and speaking of that 2013 shutdown...
Dammit I never thought I'd find anything Michael Bennet said laudable.
Madam President. (The Senator from Colorado.) Madam President, I seldom, uh, as you know, um, rise on this floor to contradict somebody on the other side. I've worked very hard over the years to work in a bipartisan way, with the presiding officer, with my Republican colleagues, but these crocodile tears that the Senator from Texas is crying for first respondesr are too hard for me to take.
They're too hard for me to take, because when you sh--when the Senator from Texas shut this government down in 2013, my state was flooded. IT WAS UNDERWATER! PEOPLE WERE KILLED! People's houses were destroyed! Their small businesses were ruined, forever! And because of the Senator from Texas, this government was shut down, for politics. Then he surfed to a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, but were of no help - pause- to the first responders, to the teachers, to the students whose schools were closed, when the federal government, that was shut down, because of the junior Senator from Texas.
(fact-check: Sen. Cruz won the 2016 Iowa Republican caucuses)
From what I've read, Sen. Bennet would be quite justified in being angry over a federal government shutdown--federal spending is the single biggest driver of Colorado's economy. (Marijuana sales being second, which is why Sen. Gardner has been urging caution in the enforcement of federal marijuana laws against states that have repealed their criminal restrictions on marijuana.)
(Also, for clarity: it's the second part I find laudable. The first part is a pipe dream now: the elected Republicans are almost always too insane to work with, with rare exceptions such as Sens. Paul and Lee, and Rep. Amash, on certain matters of foreign policy.)
EDIT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLvHy8L10TwMark Levin: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Marxist commie socialist!"
Also Mark Levin: "Please come on my show AOC."