President Obama signed the bill to end the government shutdown just after midnight on the morning of October 17th. Almost six full days later, when even liberal media outlets had switched their headlines to the failures of Healthcare.gov, Chris Matthews was still leading off his MSNBC program by tearing into Senator Ted Cruz.

Let Me Start tonight with this: I will always tell people that you only get one reputation in life. Someone should have told the Republicans that. Today, their name is mud. Actually, it's worse. It's Ted Cruz. Today and in the future, Cruz will be remembered as the one who ignited the fire of government shutdown and general political mayhem. He'll go down in history as the Mrs. O'Leary's cow of the 2013 disaster, the one guilty of kicking over the ladder that caused all the damage, who single-handedly, or single-footedly turned the Grand Old Party into the "burn down the house" party, leveling it down to the lowest level of public approval in its history

Obviously the Hardball host realizes by pivoting his coverage to the Obamacare website, which is the "hot news" of the day, he would be hurting the President. Instead he keeps driving home his anti-Republican government shutdown messages.