Washington has a minor baby boom on its hands nine months after the government shutdown October 1 to 16. The halls of Washington may have closed, but Washington staffers kept busy, putting down their BlackBerries and iPhones to pay attention to their significant others. Now, The Washington Post is reporting the maternity wards around the District of Columbia are more crowded than usual. For example, the Post reported, “Nurses at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., were making … jokes this month, when births in the first half of July increased from 265 in 2013 to 385 in 2014.” The story prompted Brian Williams of NBC News to ask, “How long until someone on television points out that during the shutdown, folks in Washington were doing at home what Washington has been accused of doing to the American people?” More…