How quickly the mess in Washington this week moves from impasse to crisis to emergency to disaster to catastrophe depends on whether you are an observer or a participant.
People looking at the politics of the situation can use all of those words to describe the chaos that legislative stubbornness has unleashed across the country, but the 800,000-plus federal workers now home without pay arenâ??t getting a civics lesson so much as a test of their emergency-finance system.
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