#democratic-senators

#democratic-senators

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert torched the eight members of the Democratic caucus who crossed party lines to end the government shutdown on Sunday, accusing them of crumbling like a granola bar in your backpack to Republicans without winning any real concessions. During Monday night's opening monologue, Colbert opened with mock relief that the country's long national nightmare was ending, before turning his fire on the Democratic defectors: At how many days? 41 days so far, it's the longest in U.S. history.