Ratings Roundup

And here is where I admit... I totally forgot that HIMYM was on... despite it having had the same timeslot for AGES.

Anyway, ratings round-up (from ew.com):

>>>NBC’s The Blacklist won the New Show Lotto again Monday night, but some other freshman titles weren’t so fortunate.

The James Spader crime thriller was down only 5 percent from last week’s premiere, though that includes a minute of Voice overrun that will later get factored out. When you look at Blacklist by half-hours, the first is a 3.8 among adults 18-49 and the second is 3.3, so there’s clearly some drainage.

Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, too, was relatively unscathed. The third week saw the Gothic crime procedural down only a tenth of a point in the ratings.

Yet CBS’ new shows had challenges across the board on a night when the network is normally very strong. The premiere of the critically slammed We Are Men was predictably troubled at 8:30 p.m. — 6.4 million and a 2.0 rating, down sharply from its HIMYM lead-in. We Are Men could have made it tougher for 2 Broke Girls, which was down 14 percent. The promising Mom slipped 12 percent from last week’s modest opener. And at 10 p.m., Hostages fell 17 percent against Blacklist to rank a distant third in the hour.<<<

Oh the Irony...

From kos:

Since May, every effort of Democrats to appoint budget conferees has been blocked by Republicans. All 18 times the Senate Democrats moved to go to conference with the House on a budget, Republicans objected.

For Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Budget Committee, the move is ironic. She has been trying for more than a half-year to go to a conference to work out dramatic differences between the Senate budget and the House version. Senate and House Republicans have objected, repeatedly. [...]

"We know going to a conference means that we have to compromise -- that's what a conference is," Murray said just before midnight. "But we're not going to do it with a gun to our head that says we're shutting government down and we're going to conference over a short little six-week C.R. We have to deal with the longer-term budget. We have asked many times to go to conference on that."

Indeed, Murray and her colleagues asked 18 times. They have been blocked by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and a group of tea party Republicans led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

The House Republicans, it should be noted, have refused to even appoint budget conferees until this last-ditch demand Monday night. Back in June, after three months of inaction from Republicans, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi unilaterally appointed Democratic conferees, to little effect. Republicans still ignored calls for a budget conference.

So all the theatrics you're about to see from Republicans on 'their simple desire just to have a conference' is just that: a big show.