Turnabout Is Fair Play
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Seems to be some buzz now about a bi-partisan deal the Senate is cooking up to open the government and raise the debt ceiling. The deal sounds like it goes something like this: “Let’s do this exact same shutdown and debt ceiling drama again in February.” Because it’s not so much a deal as it is a postponement of a deal. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/15/republicans-accuse-dems-overplaying-hand-as-budget-debate-shifts-to-sequester/
Here’s what I like about it though: It flips things around and puts the House in the position of saying yes or no, instead of the Senate. All this time the House has been putting out bill after bill, so they’ve been able to say with mock innocence, “Hey, we’re trying to do all this work but the Senate keeps shutting us down.” Now we’ll get to hear the House dance around with some explanations for saying no.
Or I guess they could accept the deal and declare victory, though I’m not really sure what they’ve won. It sounds like there will be some concessions on Obamacare but nothing even remotely close to the “let’s just make it disappear” that they supposedly want.
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