I thought we could use some comic relief after all the hair-pullingly frustrating crap going on. Here's a Daily Show segment where Jason Jones calls in a hostage negotiator, and realizes the metaphor of the republicans taking us hostage is actually painfully accurate.
Link to The Daily Show's website for the clip:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-8-2013/republican-hostage-negotiation (can't embed TDS clip, so I used Hulu instead).