The shutdown news of the day so far is that a White House official boasted to
The Wall Street Journal,
“We are winning ... It doesn't really matter to us" how long the
shutdown lasts "because what matters is the end result.” This is a sort
of gaffe, partly true and partly false. The government shutdown has a
non-zero-sum result, in that it hurts lots of Americans. It’s also a
zero-sum contest between the parties. Now, one of the ways you win the
zero-sum contest is by not
declaring you’re winning the zero-sum contest and thus opening yourself to the charge of indifference to the negative-sum effects.
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