Today the D.C. Council voted down a proposal that would have repaid D.C. workers for four furlough days they took last year.

Were you planning on spending your Presidents Day getting a business license at the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, applying for a permit at the Department of Transportation, or complaining to the Department of Public Works about your crappy trash can? Even if it wasn’t a federal holiday, you’d have to put most of those plans on hold — most government workers, Mayor Vince Gray included, are on furlough today, one of four unpaid…