I’m with Josh Marshall here. He cites an article from Byron York, a conservative reporter for the Washington Examiner, which quotes a House Republican as saying there are easily 180 or 190 “moderate” Republicans who would vote for a “clean” continuing resolution, meaning a bill to end the shutdown with no strings attached.

Like Josh, my question is “Where are they?” There may be 180 or 190 who like to be thought of as moderate, but they’ve had plenty of opportunities to vote against the lunatics in their midst and haven’t done so. As Josh says:

A couple days ago, Rep. King (R-NY) was supposedly going to lead a ‘moderate’ revolt of 25 members. But in the end, only a handful voted against the relevant House ‘rule’ and half of those were folks like Bachmann and Steve King from the Crazy Caucus who think the Boehner strategy doesn’t go far enough.

Let me know when they turn up, will you?