Blogger Don Quixote, who writes for Bookworm Room, quotes an email from a Treasury Department official to employees that appears to cross a serious line:

... an e-mail today from the Dan Tangherlini, Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Performance Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury.  The message related to the possible shut down of the government and it began with the following paragraph:

Throughout the discussions about funding for the rest of the fiscal year, the President has made it clear that he does not want a government shutdown, and the Administration is willing and ready to work day and night to find a solution with which all sides can agree.

The statement has nothing to do with the shutdown itself or what will happen if there is a shutdown.  It is a purely political and completely partisan statement.  Obama is working day and night and it's those terrible Republicans who are inflicting this terror upon you.  So, am I making something out of nothing or is this a thoroughgoing abuse of what should be a non-partisan office?