Maybe it's all for show

Huey    What a relief- the government did not shut down! Dewey: I wasn’t planning to visit a national park today. Louie: Maybe things aren’t quite what they seem; maybe the government shutdown crisis is a ritual drama that conceals important actions behind the curtain…
Let’s turn to Clifford Geertz, a famous anthropologist who died in 2006, and his 1981 book, Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali. Of course, Bali is a small island and the Balinese theatre state has nothing to do with our modern and magnificent American political system. We’re so much smarter. I imagine Barack Obama, John Boehner and Harry Reid all arm wrestling – they have six arms so they could form a triangle with Obama arm wrestling both Reid and Boehner simultaneously.