See You Back Here In January
237 words.
As I’m typing this, I’m watching on C-SPAN.org as the House is voting to adopt the Senate’s bill to fund the government until January and raise the debt ceiling until February, which the Senate passed today 81-18. Everyone expects it to pass, and at this moment I see 29 Republican Yea votes on the screen (compared to 42 Nay votes). I’ll be interested to see how Eric Cantor votes. I would assume he would vote Nay but he’s the kind of politician who will spend a lot of time talking about how bad something is and then vote for it anyway, so it would not surprise me to see him vote Yea on this.
(Why do they spell it “Yea” when it should clearly be spelled “Yay?”)
I’m reading some articles trying to see what exactly Republicans got out of this stunt, and I’m finding exactly nothing. I’m sure they got something but it’s probably not anything that journalists could understand well enough to write down on short notice. (Not that that ever stops them.) Oh, well, they got a joint committee to talk about spending cuts, that’s something they really, really wanted right? Because of how many times they said, “We just want to talk! That’s all we’re asking! Just sit down with us and talk!” (I say that with sarcasm turned to maximum.)
House vote passed 285-144.
See you back here in January I guess.
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