Goats and Congress -- Cromulent lede in USA Today

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Seen in USA Today on line this evening:

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Poison ivy-eating goats removed ahead of shutdown

Shannon Mullen, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press 11:21 p.m. EDT September 30, 2013

Goats arrived in July to eradicate poison ivy from Sandy Hook battery site.

SANDY HOOK, N.J. – For months now they’ve bleated at each other, locked horns and whiled away their days on the hill.

But enough about Congress.

The budget impasse in Washington, D.C., has chased a herd of ivy-eating goats from the Gateway National Recreation Area at Sandy Hook, N.J., ending their summerlong smorgasbord.