Let’s focus today on the fact that Congress appears to have reached a deal to keep the government operating for seven more weeks.
Think of all the things you’ll be able to do in October if there’s a government.
Camp out in a national park!
Mail a letter!
Fly to Omaha without fear that your plane will crash into a plane flying to Sioux Falls because of a lack of air traffic controllers!
Wage war in Afghanistan!
Life doesn’t get any better than that.
The latest stalemate in Washington has been over the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which had been running out of cash what with all the recent fires, floods, earthquakes, plagues of frogs and what have you.
Republicans wanted to balance any new FEMA money with cuts elsewhere.
Democrats said that when disaster strikes, the tradition is to pony up and deal with the financing issues later.
Republicans said yeah, and that’s how we wound up $14.7 trillion in the hole.
And then the Democrats said no way, we got the hole from the Bush tax cuts, and then the Republicans kicked them in the groin and everybody had to go to the emergency room.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/opinion/collins-happy-tidings-from-the-hill.html?_r=1